Author name: Roxanne Garner

2025, Fundraising

St Paul’s College Schools Immersion Fundraising

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St Paul’s College Schools Immersion Fundraising The VLM schools immersion project group from 2024 and wider St Paul’s College community raised an amazing €8,000 for the De Paul School run by the Vincentian Fathers in Kamulu, Kenya. The group of ten students and two teachers volunteered there in June 2024, teaching English, Maths, sports, and games. The money raised has been used to develop and equip two home science classrooms in the school, one for cooking lessons and one for sewing lessons. These additional classrooms offer teaching in skills that are both essential for the curriculum and give students the potential to earn an income after they finish school. The massive efforts towards fundraising are so very much appreciated by VLM and our partner projects and are truly making a life-changing difference to communities in the Global South. Share this article

2025, Kenya

New home science classrooms for De Paul School in Kamulu

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New home science classrooms for De Paul School in Kamulu The VLM schools immersion project group from 2024 and wider St Paul’s College community raised an amazing €8,000 for the De Paul School run by the Vincentian Fathers in Kamulu, Kenya. The money raised has been used to develop and equip two home science classrooms in the school, one for cooking lessons and one for sewing lessons. These additional classrooms offer teaching in skills that are both essential for the curriculum and give students the potential to earn an income after they finish school. Share this article

2025, Fundraising

VLM Quiz 2025

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VLM Table Quiz 2025 What a great night we had at the recent VLM quiz! Thank you so much to everyone who showed up and played along, our sponsors, and everyone who supported us in any way. We raised a fantastic €2351 that will make a real difference to our work across projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. We are really overwhelmed by your generosity. Congratulations to the winning team and to all our raffle winners. Thank you everyone for bringing the energy, fun and kindness. Here’s to VLM Quiz 2026!  Share this article

2025, Fundraising

Hell and Back Fundraiser

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Hell and Back Fundraiser Huge thank you to VLM volunteer Luke Hogan and friends for taking on this challenge – Hell and Back! They did it to raise funds for a brand-new sewing vocational training centre in Ambo, Ethiopia. This centre will help graduates from the Ambo Lazarist Deaf School, run by the Vincentian Fathers, gain valuable skills and a pathway to employment.  Feeling inspired? Why not take on Hell and Back or a marathon for VLM? Get in touch and do one thing, do something. Share this article

2025, Fundraising

VLM Table Quiz 2025

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VLM Table Quiz 2025 Get ready for a brain-teasing night at the Church Bar on Jervis St!  Join us for our thrilling table quiz on Tuesday 8th April 2025 and put your knowledge to the test! €10 per person – all proceeds to towards supporting VLM’s amazing work in Africa! Share this article

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Janes-story

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Volunteer Story – Jane Scott “Explore a New Sky” Welcome to Masanga, Tanzania. Set near the Serengeti, Lake Victoria, and the border with Kenya. Here the people of rural Tanzania await you with their unconditional warmth. It was my privilege to volunteer here from October to December 2022. The support of VLM and the Daughters of Charity based in Masanga ensured a most precious experience. Here in this rural Tanzanian village these resourceful, multi-tasking Sisters bring education (St Catherine Laboure School), healthcare and array of community supports to a people who otherwise would certainly struggle to avail of these services. During my time in Masanga I worked with the team who raise awareness of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The practice of FGM still pertains in this part of rural Tanzania. The project provides a refuge and daily support for young girls fleeing FGM. During my stay over 400 girls were taking refuge here.   I also worked with the women’s development project in Masanga. Here a network of local women combines to support and empower each other and strive to build sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their community. Currently a purpose-built resource centre is under construction in Masanga thanks to VLM donors. The significance of this building is immense to the overall empowerment of this dynamic group of local women. They continue to ‘break the glass ceiling’ in rural Tanzania. Experience a new journey in life…Masanga, Tanzania awaits you. Share this article

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Partnership with St Raphaels

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Partnership with St Raphael’s Garda Credit Union St Raphael’s Garda Credit Union made a donation of €200 to the Female Genital Mutilation Project in Masanga. The prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Mara region of Tanzania is very high at 32% of the female population aged 15-49 years old.  The Daughters of Charity in the Masanga run an FGM project that provides a refuge to between five and six hundred girls between November and December, engages families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and aims to transform the social norms that uphold the practice. A lack of education and poor employment prospects keep women in poverty so the project also has a vocational training centre to help girls learn skills such as sewing that can provide them with a sustainable livelihood.

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Partnership with Castleknock Hotel

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Partnership with Castleknock Hotel Castleknock Hotel employee Brian Delaney volunteered with VLM in Thigio, Kenya during the summer of 2024 and they very kindly donated €500 to the De Paul School there. This was used to buy a schoolbook for every child in the school, giving them a greater chance to succeed in their education.

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Partnership with ESB

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Partnership with ESB ESB employee Maja Hamerlinska volunteered with VLM in Thigio, Kenya in April 2024. They donated €250 to the IT project there and Maja delivered computer training courses, giving young people a chance to learn a life skill that gives them a real chance at earning them a sustainable livelihood.

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Partnership with Navillus

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Partnership with Navillus VLM is delighted to have partnered with Navillus, a construction company in New York, who sponsored the salary of a teacher at the St Catherine Laboure School, run by our partners the Daughters of Charity in Tanzania. This is part of Navillus’ extensive social responsibility programme, and their very generous donation really helped the school continue to provide quality education to local children living in this area of extreme poverty.

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