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Highlights and achievements in 2025, including mobilising over €1.14 million in funding, supporting 20 projects in 11 countries, building local capacity, and strengthening collaboration and learning.
In April, Chief Executive Fiona Dowling headed to Kenya to attend the Children with Disabilities: A Holistic Approach towards Care, Inclusion and Empowerment conference. This event was hosted by Misean Cara and the purpose was to present the findings and learnings from their three-year Children with Disabilities (CWD) programme.
The Empower Her project at Edmund Rice Centre Nairobi (ERCN) empowers 99 caregivers from Kibera, one of the most densely populated and under-served urban communities in Kenya.
In March, Programme Manager Naidi McDonnell and Admin and Project Support Officer Fionn Casey headed to Geneva to visit Edmund Rice International (ERI).
Br. Abu Kargbo, West Africa Mission Coordinator, reflects on his two-week stay with the Christian Brothers community in Geneva.
Br. Abu Kargbo, West Africa mission coordinator, received an invitation from UPR-Info, a Geneva based NGO, to come to Geneva and be part of a panel making a presentation to assembled representatives of UN member states regarding the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Sierra Leone.
In November, ERD Programme Manager Naidi McDonnelI travelled to South Africa to visit Justice Desk Africa (JDA), one of our flagship human rights partners.
In November, ERD Chief Executive Fiona Dowling travelled to Sierra Leone to visit the development projects, engage with the West Africa mission office and meet the leadership team and project governors.
In September, three leaders from ER development projects attended the 2025 Pan-African Faith and Gender Justice Conference at St. Paul’s University in Limuru, Kenya.
ERD has been implementing a disability inclusion and mainstreaming project this year to ensure that project teams understand the principles of disability inclusion, intentionally target people living with disabilities and remove barriers that may impede full participation in project activities.
My name is María. I am 15 years old, and I currently live with my mother and two stepsiste…
Chief Executive Fiona Dowling travelled to Rome in September for various ERD meetings, including the first inter-congregational workshop looking at “Building a Network for Mission Development and Sustainability”
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