The Fisher Foundation is delighted to announce a number of grant awards to organisations participating in voluntary work overseas. Awards were made to seven organisations including Trocaire, Leprosy Mission NI, CMS Ireland, Operation Rescue, Livability, UFM Worldwide and Kind Fund.
A number of the awards have helped support local people in Fermanagh volunteer overseas with a number due to spend part of the summer volunteering in countries including the Ivory Coast, Ethopia and Kenya.
Recently some of the grant recipients including James Arnold and Hannah Stewart who are volunteering with Kind Fund visited Fermanagh House in Enniskillen to receive their awards and thank the Fisher Foundation for its support.
''We greatly appreciate the support from the Fisher Foundation. It means so much, we owe a great deal of thanks to our families, friends and the wider community for their support and now the support of the Fisher Foundation means we will be able to really make a significant contribution to Kind Funds work when we are in Kenya'' explained James.
Fr Brian D'arcy on behalf of Rev Paul Hoey and himself and all of the Trustees of the Fisher Foundation congratulated everyone on their awards;
'We are delighted these good causes and local people volunteering overseas, especially when we know of firsthand the benefits both in terms of the actual work these organisations are doing overseas and the benefits for the volunteers and the wider community when they return home and share their experiences'.
The Foundation will be inviting applications for its 2011 volunteering overseas awards with the closing date the 28th February 2011. For further information contact Lauri McCusker at the Fermanagh Trust,
Fermanagh House, Broadmeadow Place, Enniskillen, email:
info@fermanaghtrust.org
, telephone 028 66 320210
