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A NEW CAMPAIGN is asking people to donate five euro to help homeless families this Christmas.
#5GiveAFiver and St Vincent de Paul (SVP) are aiming to raise €5,000 for families and children in emergency accommodation in Dublin.
There are currently more than 1,000 families in emergency accommodation in the capital.
The fundraising effort is asking people to give up the cost of a pint or burrito for a good cause.
In November alone SVP’s East Region (Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow) received approximately 10,000 calls, which is an increase of 7% on the same period last year. Similar trends are being experienced in different parts of the country.
Sarah Dunne, director of #5GiveAFiver, said: “We are facing a homeless crisis on a scale not seen before in Dublin and across the rest of the country. How insignificant can €5 sometimes be? It’s the price of a drink and scarily enough the price of a coffee in some places.
But what if we all donated a fiver to SVP this Christmas? What if you and five of your friends sacrificed your next pint in the pub or next coffee to donate €5 to those in desperate need of your help?
“What if those five friends passed on the challenge? It would make a difference. It won’t solve the entire problem but it would help give a child a Christmas. Who is to say your fiver won’t make a difference?”
More information on the campaign can be read here.
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Sounds like a good initiative. Hopefully it’ll go to plan and do what it aims to.
There are so many single view articles on the Journal that it is hard to believe the Good Information Project. Who will be responsible for deciding what information is “good”? We only have to look at the headline the Journal put out this-morning about Sinn Fein putting ads in US papers, but it wasn’t actually Sinn Fein. Where’s the “good Information” there? Practice what you preach.
@Alan Wright: ah come on Alan, that is not fair. The journal is a beacon of independent academic truth finding. You accuse them of being biased??? Well well well, what makes you think that?!
@Alan Wright: Oh and the Politburo decides what is “good”, in conjunction with the Reichskulturkammer.
The good information project should maybe look at the previous article and it’s headline. Sinn Fein did NOT runs ads in America, an amalgamatIon of Irish groups there ran them.
@M Bowe: maybe its the good to someone information project. Or an excuse of a name to pass disinformation lol
Good luck with it, it could be very good….
Can Ireland be carbon-emission free by 2050? – We’re destined to shovel water from this sinking raft forever. Maybe in a decade the second hand electric car market will open up the idea to 90% of the population and there’s already barely any public transport so yea, maybe.
What should the working week look like after the Covid-19 crisis? – Get money however you can, the idea that we’re building for the ‘future’ through progress is laughable at this stage.
What could a new Constitution look like? – Words on a piece of paper.
@thesaltyurchin: Maybe you are right about our situation at the moment but maybe not. The pandemic, as well as having been a bloody awful nightmare has also had some unforseen positive effects – for example, the way Zoom and other platforms like it have opened up the possibilities of rearranging how people work, as well as allowing people who would not have previously have done so to engage in all sorts of classes, webinars, etc, thus broadening their knowledge base.
Whos uncle gave ypu the job to delete comments? I just wanna talk Fintan
The Good Information Project
@Young Politican: am doing FOI to get clear what EU funding pays for the project. And based on what criteria of the organization executing it. Like being in former DDR with all this deleting posts the do.
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