Afri, Action from Ireland | Responding to injustice in the world caused by war and other violent conflict

Sharon is a 23-years-old mother of 4 children who lives in Lomolo and walks many miles to her work in the Maize fields. The gift of the solar light helps by enabling her children to study after dark .

Caoimhe de Barra at Feile Bride

Carlow Famine Walk

Féile Bríde

Christina Sote with Joe Murray

Sharon Chepngetich receives an Afri solar lamp from Maasai Kipruto (Development Pamoja).

Hedge School 2018

Afri is holding a training for secondary school teachers on Monday 12th November

Public meeting with Nicola Peel, Amazon Activist and Solutionologist, on Monday 13th August 2018.

Famine Walk 2018: Remembering and Solidarity – here is a short film capturing moments and music from the walk. Photo: Derek Speirs

From Darkness to Light: Short Film about death row survivors Sunny Jacobs (right) and Peter Pringle who spoke at Afri’s Féile Bríde 2018. Photo: Derek Speirs

Pupils from Gael Scoil Ceatharlach walk to the Famine Graveyard from IT Carlow during 2018 Carlow Famine Walk in February. Photo: Karl McDonough

Reflections from Féile Bríde 2018: (From Left to Right): Peadar Kirby, Hanny Van Geel, Sunny Jacobs, John Maguire and Joe Murray. Photo: Dave Donnellan

Short film made by RoJ about the Food Sovereignty event held in NUI Maynooth in April 2017.

Absolute Freedom & Independence: A short film about Michael Davitt, one of Ireland’s great unsung heroes

Chas Jewett, from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and Standing Rock Water protector, spoke in Dublin in June 2017. Photo: Derek Speirs

Bloomsday Not Bombsday, June 2016. Photo: Derek Speirs

Afri’s banner visible during the ‘Reclaim the Vision of 1916’ march and rally. Photo by Derek Speirs

Pupils from Scoil Eoghain in Moville, with their teacher Rose Kelly as she launches her book ‘Pathways of Peace’ and plants a tree (donated by the Woodland Trust), in St. Columb’s Park House, Derry on 4th December 2015. Photo: Nuala Crilly

Food Sovereignty Proclamation launched in Dublin at Climate March, November 2015. Photo: William Hedermann

Timor Leste Presidential Medals were presented to the East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign and Sean Steele in May 2015. Pictured: Oran Doyle (left) and Joe Murray (right) accepting these medals on behalf of the campaign, with Tom Hyland (centre), the campaign’s founder

Development education resource ‘JUST A SECOND! Exploring Global Issues Through Drama and Theatre’, by Pete Mullineaux is available from Afri. Photo: Derek Speirs

As part of Afri’s work in promoting sustainable development we have adopted a policy of planting a native tree at each of Afri’s signature events, as well as supporting the development of a small, native woodland forest, near Laragh, in County Wicklow

Welcome to Afri

Afri’s vision is of a more just, peaceful, equal and sustainable world. Afri seeks to inform debate and influence policy and practice in Ireland and internationally on human rights, peace, global justice, and sustainability issues. Afri particularly responds to injustice caused by militarisation, and by environmental destruction and resource depletion. We do this through analysis, education and action in solidarity with marginalised people in the ‘Global South’ and also in Ireland and elsewhere in the so-called ‘developed world’.

Famine Walk CD ‘Music From A Dark Lake’

An 18 track CD by some of Ireland’s greatest artists – all of whom have performed at the Famine Walk – has been produced by Afri to mark the 30th Walk.

This is an extraordinary collection of songs, music and spoken word accompanied by a 32 page booklet brimming with interesting facts, quotes and information. Find out more here on how to get your copy.

Afri complies with The Governance Code for the Community, Voluntary and Charitable Sector in Ireland.

The Great Starvation

Over 30 years Afri has been joined by thousands of people to walk the famine road through the Doolough Valley in County Mayo. It is a walk like no other, abounding in memory, music, history, solidarity and spectacular beauty; retracing the steps of the dispossessed of the past and forging solidarity with the banished and oppressed of today.

This documentary, made by RoJ, reflects on the issues at the core of this event.

Afri is a signatory to the Dóchas Code of Conduct on Images and Messages