# Vodafone Ireland announces programme winners

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/04/18/vodafone-ireland-announces-programme-winners/
- Published: 2007-04-18T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Vodafone Ireland Foundation has announced the winners of their innovative new programme,
World of Difference, which searched the country to find four people eager to give
up their jobs and spend a year, paid by the Foundation, working for their chosen
registered Irish charity.

Hundreds of applications were received for the programme and following a thorough
selection process, Vodafone Ireland Foundation selected the four people with the
passion, skills and commitment to make a real World of Difference to a cause close
to their hearts.

The fours winners each have agreed their own unique project with their chosen charity
that they will complete over their World of Difference year;

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Des McDonnell, a young IT specialist from Dundalk will work with Camara, to develop
and implement educational software on refurbished and recycled computers for distribution
in African schools.

Michael Tighe from Dublin, who has recently returned from the UK, will work with
Pieta House, a Centre for Prevention of Self-Harm or Suicide, where he will research
self-harm in Ireland.

Anne Cody, a Kilkenny woman will work with CEART, an organisation that works with
people with long-term illnesses and chronic pain to implement a new patient self
management programme that will enable and empower people to better cope with their
illnesses.

John McKeever from Belfast and former advisor to organisations such as WHO & UNAIDS
will work with Jobcare, an organisation that assists people to find employment. 
He will develop and implement a new programme called ‘Straight to Work’ in prisons.

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