EIL Intercultural Learning

On the 29th of September Bray People covered the story of Maeve Galvin's Global Awareness Volunteer in Nigeria. ON A van making a two-hour journey across the Nigerian countryside, more than 20 fast friends share conspiratorial jokes about the bravado of the armed police they see dotting the landscape.

On September 24th, 2010 The Clare Champion covered Emily Price's story in the article "A close-up perspective on Aids in Nigeria". Emily is one of the winners of EIL Travel Awards 2010 who traveled to Nigeria as part of EIL’s Global Awareness Programme.

On June 4th, 2010 The Clare Champion covered Emily Price's story in the article "Teacher to work on Nigerian Aids programme". Emily is one of the winners of EIL Travel Awards 2010 an will travel to Nigeria as part of EIL’s Global Awareness Programme.

When Lynda Piper-Roche signed up to volunteer in South Africa she didn't expect to be nursing an 11-year old boy as he died from AIDS. Here, she recounts her story of tears and joy for reporter Mary Fogarty.

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..."

On June 26, 2009 The Roscommon People covers Ciara Cunningham's story in the article Support Ciara’s African work at local coffee morning. Ciara is one of the winners of EIL Travel Awards 2009 and will travel to South Africa as part of EIL’s Global Awareness Programme.

In July, Ciara will travel to Athlone, a community to the east of Cape Town, for nine weeks to work with children living with HIV and AIDS...