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TOUCH Ireland Foundation

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17 Monread Meadows, Naas, Kildare

TOUCH Ireland Foundation

Supporting Vulnerable Children in 'Our World'.

TOUCH Ireland is a totally voluntary charity with a vision of a global community where all people, irrespective of Race, Religion or country are equal and entitled to the basic needs to survive and develop.It mainly supports Vulnerable Children in 'Our World'

TOUCH Ireland was launched in July 2003. We are trying to be different in that all the money we raise for our projects goes directly to our projects. How many times have you asked yourself when you give a donation to a charity how much of it goes to the actual project and how much goes to administration or other costs. This means that we pay no salaries and try to support our running cost and our office through company sponsorship. This allows for all financial donations made by the general public and grants from other groups to go directly to our projects where they want the full benefit of their donations to go.

 

 

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TOUCH Ireland

“Our World - Our Responsibility”

TOUCH Ireland’s focus is on vulnerable children in “Our World”. We use the term “Our World” as opposed to “Third World” or “Developing World”. We feel this terminology allows people to believe that the problem is not ours and therefore not our responsibility. But we feel that if everyone does something regardless of what level they are at then we can significantly help these children. We don’t think we are going to change the world but even if we help only one child then it has to be worth our effort.

The ethos of TOUCH Ireland is simple in that all children have a right to food, shelter, medication and education. This is the principle we work with and we feel a huge responsibility to do the best we can. All funds raised from the general public go directly to source and this is very important to our groups and ourselves as we understand this is what the people would like to see. Voluntary members of TOUCH Ireland travels to our projects at least once a year, this at their own expense to ensure that all funds are being put to good use.

where your money goes

The aim of TOUCH through its projects is primarily to keep people alive and instil hope for the future through education. It is always our intention that communities do not become reliant on us. They are encouraged and supported to provide for their own community when they are in a position to do so. Local people in their own country manage all projects. At all times their ideals, culture and customs are respected.

Working with “Our World” Communities

We work in consultation with local communities and organisations on the ground in our area of operation to identify their needs and future projects.

We now have over 120 projects in Zambia, Cameroon, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Brazil and Bangladesh.

history

 How “TOUCH Ireland” came about

 

We set up in 1998 to help a Cheshire centre for orphaned children in Kaoma, Zambia with the aim of acquiring medical supplies, food, clothing, and anything else we could send. In particular baby milk and baby food was requested as these were in very short supply and the centre was in financial difficulty.

In 1999 we sent a 40ft. Container to Kaoma to support this project. We travelled to Zambia to visit the centre and see what more we could do to help; this was the beginning of what is now TOUCH Ireland.

Since then TOUCH Ireland has been involved in starting projects or supporting existing ones, all related to vulnerable children. We now support projects in Zambia, Cameroon, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Brazil, Bangladesh and recently in Uganda

We also send Aid Containers to the projects to support the endeavours of the local people running these projects.

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