Ireland Funds report record breaker
Howard Lake | 13 August 2006 | News
The American Ireland Fund 31st Annual New York Dinner Gala held in the Spring is reporting a record breaking $4.1 million dollars raised for charity in Ireland. Some 1300 people attended the dinner which honoured prominent Irish Americans.
The American Ireland Fund has committed $1 million through the Dinner to Sesame Street to enable them to produce 26 programs for youth in Northern Ireland aimed at reducing prejudice.
The second initiative will provide for the building and staffing of the very first American Ireland Fund integrated preschool in Northern Ireland. Only 6% of Catholic and Protestant children are educated together in Northern Ireland.
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