Twenty Fifteen - A student response to the 1st Millennium Goal |
TWENTY FIFTEEN - Thoughts and reflections on the First Millennium Development Goal - To eradicate hunger & poverty is a remarkable student achievement, and the result of a year long collaboration between two Irish secondary schools and Self Help Africa.
But the book is much more than that - as it not alone provides a platform for a group of Irish secondary school students to find their voice on the Millennium Goals, it also includes contributions by some of Ireland's best known literary heavyweights and public figures. |
Transition year students from Colaiste Bhride in Carnew and from St. Peter's College, Dunboyne have been working on the project since last September. Their efforts were rewarded too, when they took the top prize at the annual 'Young Social Innovators'competition, in Dublin's RDS in May (pictured above).
Alongside the poetry and prose of students themselves, the book also has contributions from such notable literary luminaries as Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney, Booker Prize winner Anne Enright, and Costa Award winner Sebastian Barry.
'Twenty Fifteen - Thoughts and reflections on the first Millennium Development Goal : To eradicate poverty and hunger' has received sponsorship support from Irish Aid.
Twenty Fifteen is the result of a remarkable partnership between Self Help Africa's development education team and the students at Colaiste Bhride and St. Peter's College. It draws its name from the year '2015', the date by which the Developed World has pledged to deliver upon the promises made with the Millennium Development Goals.
The book is also the first in a series of eight published collaborations being planned - one on each Millennium Development Goal to be produced annually between now and 2015, and an exercise undertaken as part of a "Poverty Week" programme of consciousness raising activities being undertaken by the students, with support from Self Help Africa and The Diseases of Poverty Consortium at NUI Maynooth. |
