Afri’s Tree Planting Project

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Native tree saplings growing in the Afri site in Native Woodland Trust’s forest, Laragh, Wicklow

As part of Afri’s work in promoting sustainable development we have, for the past year and a half, adopted a policy of not just planting a native tree at each of Afri’s signature events, but of supporting the development of a small, native woodland forest, near Laragh, in County Wicklow.  Accordingly, we have developed a partnership with the Native Woodland Trust which is dedicated to the preservation of Ireland’s ancient woodlands and to the planting of new trees and woods all over Ireland.  Afri staff members recently visited the Laragh site to view the burgeoning forest!  You can support this work by sponsoring a tree via the Native Woodland Trust’s website  (please indicate that you would like your tree to be part of the Afri ‘forest’).

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Impressions from Féile Bríde 2014

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This year’s Féile Bríde aimed to mark the issues of “Life: Source or Resource-Enslavement versus sovereignty.”  The day started with the beautiful music of harpist Fionnuala Gill as the Brigid flame was carried into the conference hall.  The event made connections across borders, nations and nationalities, attracting speakers and partners from East Africa to the West of Ireland, in order to tackle together the unequal distribution of resources and the threats to food sovereignty.

Contributors to Féile Bríde 2014: (from left to right): Abjata Khalif (Kenya Pastoralist Journalist Network); Mia De Faoite (Turn off the Red Light campaigner); Donal Dorr (author, theologian and Turn off the Red Light campaigner); Fergal Anderson (farmer and Food Sovereignty Ireland), and Pete Mullineaux (poet, dramatist and arts facilitator). Photo: Joe Murray

Speakers included Afri’s partner Abjata Khalif of the Kenyan pastoralist Journalist Network, Fergal Anderson a small farmer from the west of Ireland, veteran writer and campaigner on issues of human trafficking, Donal Dorr, and Mia De Faoite, a survivor of prostitution speaking from her experience. Continue reading “Impressions from Féile Bríde 2014” →

Date for your Diary – Féile Bríde 2014

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Féile Bríde 2014 will take place on Saturday 8th February in the Osborne Centre in Kildare town. The title of this year’s Féile Bríde is “Life: Source or Resource – Enslavement versus Sovereignty”.

Féile Bríde 2014 will look at issues of life, light and liberty with perspectives from our partner Abjata Khalif of the Kenya Pastoralist Journalists Network; from Fergal Anderson linking food sovereignty issues locally and globally, as a ‘small farmer’ from the West of Ireland; and Donal Dorr will be joined by a woman with personal knowledge of the issue of human trafficking to explore the meaning of slavery, sovereignty and sustenance. Continue reading “Date for your Diary – Féile Bríde 2014” →