Posts Tagged ‘suas’

The call of instinct, and learning to listen.

Is it really seven years? Really?
Back in 2003 I pestered for a job. I had read an advertisement for a new educational charity that was setting up, and a support person was needed. So I applied. Walking to the interview, there was a positive swing in my step, little did I know what I was [...]

Along the railway line.

I had a little wander down memory’s path this week, when Suas posted a link to an audio slideshow with images and sound from my last trip to Kolkata, India. One morning last August I followed the lovely Hasif Seikh from his home in Guitary Sharif along the railway line to his school, documenting the [...]

Comments to chew on from the Bridge to College…

‘More teamwork’, ‘more peer-to-peer learning’, ‘redesign classroom layout’ were just a few of the comments whizzing from the lunch tables at the Science Gallery when Suas and the Trinity Foundation played host to a discussion yesterday to help launch Irish educational practices into the 21st Century.
The lunch event followed the graduation of 300+ secondary [...]

Cheers to Arthur!

A huge congrats must go today to the 10 Social Entrepreneurs who received an Arthur Guinness Fund award yesterday. Each get a very welcome cheque of €100,000 to help their innovative social enterprises grow. See more here in the Irish Times, along with a great photo which captures the excitement.
I must say I am [...]

Painting the town green

Time to get those shamrocks dusted off. Yes, that time of year again when the Suas facepainters take to streets across the nation and paint the towns green.
Suas are looking for a new swarm of facepainters this year in Dublin Cork and Galway to come out on St. Patrick’s day and help to raise money [...]

India and Kenya wanderings..


Spring has Sprung

Spring has sprung. I saw the first daffodils peeping up their regal yellow crowns the other day, and the days are feeling lighter and brighter.
It was a long winter, and for those of you who follow my blog you may have thought I had gone into hibernation. To an extent I had, with duvet nights [...]

Bridge to College Graduation

The graduation of students from Suas’ Bridge to College took place last week in Trinity’s Science Gallery. 
Exhibition boards and graphics by myself. These photos taken with my phone camera.

At the Suas/ DCU Mentoring Project…


Keep our Promise to the World’s poorest.

Add your signature to the Dochas letter to the Taoiseach to protect the overseas development budget from further cuts. 
Here is the text to the letter: 
Dear Taoiseach,
In the coming days, you and your colleagues will be making some very difficult decisions. If they are to be acceptable to the Irish public, those decisions must be guided [...]