Habitat for Humanity in Ballyogan

stcdublin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:47:31 +0000

Last Saturday, Serve the City sent a team from Habitat for Humanity to the Ballyogan Resource Centre. The group were made up of two small volunteer teams going to Romania and Thailand in the coming months to build homes with Habitat. While at the resource centre, the group did a tremendous job tearing out weeds and overgrowth, as well as painting the walls, planters, and storage shed door. Staff from the Ballyogan Community Development Group now have a nice back garden area behind their office building and a place to plant a community garden to be maintained by residents of the estate.

The Resource centre is used for a variety of different services for residents of Ballyogan, including homework clubs, family support, counselling, life skills training, and more. It’s been a privilege for Serve the City to partner with the Ballyogan community over the last few years! (CLICK HERE to see our entire image gallery on Flickr.)

Serve the City Gardens

stcdublin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:32:57 +0000

Over the last month, Serve the City have been getting to know community activists in the Ballyogan area in order to find ways that we can both serve the needs of people living in the estate, as well as mobilize volunteers from the estate to serve.

Over the last weekend in March, a small volunteer team from Canada welcomed the opportunity to paint and clean for a woman who has been hospitalized and unable to live at home in the estate with her four children. Since then, we’ve met with one of the leaders of the Ballyogan Community Development Group who is excited about the growing partnership and future possibilities with Serve the City.

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Habitat for Humanity in Ballyogan

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