Vodafone Ireland announces programme winners
Howard Lake | 18 April 2007 | News
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.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.