Responding to injustice in the world caused by war and other violent conflict
Continue reading “Moving Towards the Light – Féile Bríde 2022”
We in Afri join with the world in expressing our sadness at the passing of our hero and patron, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Continue reading “A New Year Message from Afri to coincide with the burial of our patron Archbishop Desmond Tutu”
Continue reading “A Celebration of the Life of Desmond Tutu”
‘When we start to act, hope is everywhere’ – the significance of these words by Greta Thunberg cannot be underestimated, that’s why we have chosen them to guide us through 2022. Continue reading “Afri Calendar 2022”
(L-R) Joe Murray of Afri with Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Rob Fairmichael of INNATE at the lauch of The Downpatrick Declaration. 07.12.21 (Photo by Roger Whelan) Continue reading “Downpatrick Declaration”
Since 2018, Afri has worked with our partners Development Pamoja and The Kenya Pastoralist Journalist Network (KPJN) to provide solar lights for families and vulnerable members of communities in rural Kenya. Continue reading “Solar Lights for Kenya”
Ireland has some part in the arms industry, as evidenced by an event being hosted by the Department of Defence this month in the Aviva Stadium, writes Joe Murray, co-ordinator of Afri — Action From Ireland Continue reading “Cop26 failed to consider war industry’s part in climate crisis”
Join us on Wednesday, November 17th from 9:45am to 3.00pm for our Annual Virtual Hedge School 2021. The event is organised in partnership with third-year students of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Community Development and Youth Work course in TU Dublin – Blanchardstown Continue reading “Afri Hedge School 2021”
Friends from around Stuttgart in South Germany joined Afri’s Famine Walk in 2018 and 2019 in county Mayo in the West of Ireland and due to the pandemic, they joined the walk online in 2020 and 2021. At the end of the 2021 online event, Joe Murray, the coordinator of Afri, suggested that people should organize their own “famine walk” wherever they live.
Afri presents the Annual Famine Walk 2021 in association with Trócaire.
The Famine Walk normally takes place in the Doolough Valley in County Mayo and has been attended by hundreds of people every year since 1988. Continue reading “Virtual Famine Walk 2021 – Talks, Music and Poetry”