Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela

KADE is a member of The Irish Coalition for the Global Campaign for Education (ICGCE) who’s focus is to raise awareness in Ireland of the Education for All agreements in the education sector and in broader Irish society.

Visions of Africa 2011 travels to Dublin for exhibition at the Irish Aid Volunteering & Information Centre. Opening on November 2nd, the Centre will feature the Visions of Africa 2011 images for the month of November.

Irish Aid is coordinating its Our World Irish Aid Awards for primary schools in Ireland. The overall purpose of the programme is to raise awareness among Irish pupils of the lives of children and their families in developing countries. By taking part, children can learn how Ireland works with these countries as partners for development.

We had an opportunity to visit Ireland through Leonardo Project and contact between KADE and Kainuun Ammattiopisto.  Ms Mary McGillicuddy from KADE friendly arranged us the placement in Bud's Family and Community Centre.

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So you’re committed to buying fair trade, and concerned about unfair trade in the world, but have you ever wondered what else you can do? Why not come along to our interactive, participatory workshop which will explore why global trade is unfair, and how things need to change so poor countries can move out of poverty.

Deadline for submissions extended until Friday April 22^nd 2011

Africa Day is celebrated on the 25^th May worldwide. The date commemorates the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which, in July 2002, was succeeded by the present African Union, while amalgamating with the African Economic Community (AEC). The aim of Africa Day is to challenge perceptions of Africa and promote a more comprehensive understanding of the diverse culture that springs from this vast continent; the emphasis is on celebrating the positive.

 

 

One World Week is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally.

 

 

Fairtrade is transforming the lives of millions of farming families in developing countries and this is down to the passionate commitment of Fairtrade supporters, stockists and companies around the world. Show off and in doing so, encourage others to follow in your footsteps.

 
 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – Poverty Day October 17th – each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern poverty day movement in 1987.

KADE aims to promote and support DE in County Kerry. It operates a DE resource centre with a well stocked resource lending library, located at 11 Denny Street, Tralee. A periodic newsletter is issued and a website maintained, www.kade.ie. Centre services include provision of outreach DE sessions for primary classes on a range of topics and provision of annual summer in-service courses in collaboration with Tralee Education Centre.

 

KADE will host an upcoming Cluster Day at The Education Centre, Tralee on Friday October 22^nd. Students will examine fair trade, the UN Millennium Development Goals and intercultural issues.

 

Irish Aid , the Government’s overseas aid programme, is hosting a multimedia exhibition, Khulungira: Harvesting Hope in an African Village, at this year’s National Ploughing Championships which take place in Athy, Co. Kildare from September 21st to 23rd. The exhibition, which features videos, slideshows and photographs, introduces the people of Khulungira village in Malawi who have benefited from advances in agricultural research.

 

Castleisland Mayor Cllr. Bobby O'Connell has launched the Castleisland exhibition of the 2010 Visions of Africa. This annual exhibition features 30 striking images which portray a positive image of Africa. The exhibition runs at Castleisland LIbrary from June 8th - 22nd. The Tralee exhibition was opened by the Mayor of Tralee, Cllr. Terry O’ Brien.

 

 

 

The 4th DICE (Development and Intercultural Education Project) Annual Conference 2010 will take place in Limerick on the 17th and 18th of June 2010.

Each year the conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners, student teachers, NGOs and all others in the education sector, to engage in dialogue and reflect on practice relevant to Development and Intercultural Education.

The annual exhibition features 30 striking images which portray a positive image of Africa. See the images at Siamsa Tíre, Tralee from May 18th - 28th or at Castleisland Library from June 8th - 22nd. Entrance is free of charge and all are welcome to visit. The Tralee exhibition was opened by the Mayor of Tralee, Cllr. Terry O’ Brien.

 

 

AONTAS, the Irish National Association of Adult Education, recently commissioned research called 'Integrating Development into Adult Education', which is now available.

IT Tralee student, Alan Burns, is currently volunteering in Nepal. Alan is working with just-one and has been aided in his efforts by The Omprakash Foundation. Below are excerpts from Alan's online blog.

 

 

Two Kerry-based primary school teachers, Treasa Ní Eachthigheirn & Nell Ní Chathasaigh, are currently working on an educational project in Haiti on behalf of Hibernia College (a KADE member).

 

 

ITT student Alan Burns is in Nepal with just-one and The Omprakash Foundation. We've been following his blog:

 

Congress's biennial Conference visits Tralee. ICTU has been promoting its Development Education project, Global Solidarity, widely at the Conference. The aim of the project is to strengthen Congress' and the affiliated unions' international solidarity work, as well as to play an important role in raising awareness of the causes of exploitation, inequality, poverty and climate change.

 

Aontas, the National Adult Learnign Organisation, has published a report on Adult Education in Ireland. The report sets out to examine the extent to which development education is understood in the adult and community education sector and to explore how adult educators might be supported in integrating development education into its work and processes using active citizenship as the main focus.

KADE delivered a workshop on teaching about fair trade to 18 Bulgarian teachers in Sofia, on Feb. 17 and 18, as part of a training project to introduce Development Education to educators in the EU accession countries of Bulgaria, Lithuania and Cyprus.

Mr. Peter Power, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for Overseas Development Aid  officially opened the KADE photographic exhibition, ‘Visions of Africa’ in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick on Thursday, February 5 at 7:00 p.m. Mary Immaculate College of Education President Peadar Cremin invited KADE to display the exhibit in the college.

KADE (Kerry Action For Development Education) launched Development Photopack Volume 1 at IT Tralee on Tuesday November 25th, 2008. “KADE is delighted and proud to be part of this partnership with IT Tralee” declared KADE chairperson, Seán Lyons. Gratefully acknowledging students’ contribution to the work and their consciousness of inequalities in our society, he continued “Students have certainly put the action into development in Kerry.”

Kerry Mayor Tom Fleming was presented a copy of with the KADE Millennium Development Goals information poster Monday, Oct 13, 2008 in Council Chambers in Tralee by KADE Chairman Sean Lyons and KADE Education Officer Ciara O’Connor. The poster forms part of KADE’s Co. Kerry awareness campaign about the UN Goals. They will be circulated to every school in Kerry, as well as community development organisations, churches, businesses and posted on the KADE website. The Goals, which relate to basic development  essentials such as education and health, were set by the UN in 2000 with an intended achievement date in 2015.

 

 

25 teachers and teacher trainers from Cyprus, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Scotland and Ireland participated in a workshop on Development Education in Kaunas/ Lithuania from the 19th until the 23rd of October, 2008. The workshop was part of the EuropeAid funded project ‘Accessing Development Education’, coordinated by Future Worlds Center (Cyprus) in partnership with Youth Career and Advising Centre (Lithuania), ScotDec (Scotland), KADE (Ireland) and C.E.G.A. (Bulgaria). The project’s main aim is to engage educators and schools in Development Education activities and equip them with relevant training and materials, thus making them promoters and multipliers of national campaigns that aim to create awareness about Development and about global interdependencies.