EIL Travel Awards 2009

Edith giving a speech

Submitted by VermontGroup on 21 July 2009 - 3:14pm
Edith giving a speech

Some Dreams Do Come True

Submitted by VermontGroup on 21 July 2009 - 2:36pm

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." The education to which Young refers is not the kind of education which can be taught in a classroom or extracted from the most enlightening textbook. It is this kind of challenging education that the Vermont Governor’s Institute on Current Issues and Youth Activism provides.

Barry Morrissey

Submitted by Andrea Raza on 13 July 2009 - 3:51pm

Barry Morrissey, Volunteer in Nigeria.

Barry Morrissey

From Nigeria with toothpaste...

On July 1, 2009 The Kilkenny People covered the story of Karen Reidy in the article From Nigeria with toothpaste. Karen is one of the winners of EIL Travel Awards 2009 and will be in Nigeria to work in AIDS and HIV clinics for 10 weeks. This is what Karen recounted to the newspaper before she left earlier this month.

"NIGERIA has a bad reputation and not without reason. Ask someone what they know about Nigeria and invariably the negative responses will outweigh the positive. Corruption, human rights abuses, attacking of oil installations..."

Lynda Piper-Roche and Minister Bill Kelleher TD

Submitted by Andrea Raza on 2 July 2009 - 2:04pm

Lynda Piper-Roche collecting her Travel Awards. Lynda is one of the winners of EIL Travel Awards 2009 and is spending two months in South Africa for the Global Awareness Programme.

Lynda Piper-Roche and Minister Bill Kelleher TD

Free Travel Opportunities

Submitted by Kevin Hickey on 4 March 2009 - 6:19pm

Japan Travel AwardImagine the excitement of telling somebody who has never been on an aeroplane that their first flight will be to Japan, Ecuador or Mexico.  Thanks to the EIL Travel Awards I have been able to do this a few times.