INFORMATION NIGHT FOR VOLUNTEERS  

SATURDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER AT 7.30 P.M. OLD GROUND HOTEL, ENNIS, CO CLARE 

All aspects of our Jan/Feb 2012 project will be discussed and volunteers will have an opportunity to view the plans. 

The Building of Hope Committee are looking forward to meeting all the volunteers on the night.


 

A Fancy Dress Disco at the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan Town, Co. Monaghan.

Neven Maguire Cookery Demonstration

Table Quiz in aid of Building of Hope Project Kenya 2012

Marian McMahon, Kanturk who is volunteering for the above project is holding a fundraising Table QuizVenue at Bogdale House, Kilmaley. Date: Saturday 24th September @ 9.30pmTeams of 3: €20. Raffle on the night Your support is appreciated! All Welcome.

FINAL 50 VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR OUR 2012 PROJECT

To date 150 trades people have signed up to build the residential home for blind orphaned children in Mombasa, Kenya. All the volunteers are busy fundraising and the response across Ireland has been fantastic.  To date we have volunteers from Clare, Monaghan, Galway, Carlow, Kilkenny, Dublin, Louth, Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, Laois, Wicklow, Donegal, Cavan, Leitrim, Mayo, Kildare.  There will be great competition among the blocklayers to see which county puts up the most blocks. Our aim is to have every county in Ireland represented on this project so maybe YOU are the volunteer that will fly the flag for your county.  

 All the volunteers are busy fundraising. The people of Ireland have been so supportive and generous to the volunteers and the Building of Hope Committee would like to say a big thank you to all the volunteers and their supporters.

UPCOMING FUNDRAISERS

Don Ryan has organised a quiz night in Flashes, the Tailrace Bar in Parteen.
A great night of fun is promised and there will be finger food as well, making the outing great value for €10 a head.
“We’ll have tables of four so its forty Euros a table and I’ll have spot prizes on the night,” said Don.
The quiz night takes place on July 2 starting at 8.30pm.
Anyone who would like to donate a spot prize should contact the Tailrace Bar after 4pm on 061-451527. Anyone who wants to go along and support Don can pay in on the night.

KILMALEY woman, Emma Healy got a little help from her friends....by Bernie English

KILMALEY woman, Emma Healy got a little help from her friends – fifteen of them to be precise – last week when she went to run the Flora Mini Marathon in Dublin.
The Clare ladies organised themselves to run alongside Emma and raise sponsership for her trip as a volunteer with the Building of Hope next year.
“They were absolutely fantastic and we had a great day,” said Emma, who works in Ennis General Hospital.
But this is not the first time she has been given a helping hand, or in a recent case a helping, head, chest and lots of legs.
“We had a waxathon and fair play to them, the Kilmaley United soccer team turned out to be waxed and shaved. One chap got his whole head of hair and beard shaved off, another got his chest waxed and lots of them got their legs waxed – it was a brilliant night,” Emma told The Clare People.
Also helping on the night at the Bogdale House in Kilmaley were pals, Lorraine Tuohy and Anne Killeen who fed the starving hoardes as well as Emma’s sister Martina who did the waxing and local barber Joey Woulfe, who took care of the shaving.
Now Emma – who teaches Irish dancing to adults and children – is planning a fundraising ceili for October 14 in the Auburn Lodge when Michael Sexton’s two-piece ceili band will be playing.
The fun starts at 9.30pm.
This will be 27-year old Emma’s first trip to Africa and she doesn’t know. As yet, what she will be doing.
“Olive told me it could be anything but she did ask me to bring my dancing shoes to teach some of the local kids how to do a bit of dancing.”