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The collapse of the Celtic Tiger and the focus on the disaster in Haiti has had an unexpected effect on the street children and orphans of Africa. An inability to access help and funding is crippling the efforts of orphanages and rehabilitation centres to help some of Africa’s most vulnerable children.

A memorial tree will be planted on the Salthill Promenade next week to honour the life of Galway-based photographer Trent Keegan just days after what would have been his 34th birthday.

Two men have gone on trial in Kenya in connection with the murder of a Galway-based photographer in the country last May.

The efforts by Mayo’s Fairtrade towns have helped secure Government funding of €15 million to support farmers in East Africa, according to Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin TD.

Sarah Wairimu, who operates the children’s orphanage Dochas Nasamu near Kangari in Kenya, will be awarded an honorary arts degree in NUI, Galway on Tuesday October 21.

What a Few Can Do is a photographic exhibition by Dublin-based photographer, Elaine Harvey. The exhibition is showing in Mayo County Library, Castlebar until Friday November 28.

International development charity Voluntary Service Overseas Ireland is calling on Carlow business professionals to consider volunteering overseas if they are feeling a little insecure in the current economic climate.

International development charity Voluntary Service Overseas Ireland is calling on Carlow business professionals to consider volunteering overseas if they are feeling a little insecure in the current economic climate.

The government is being urged to take further steps to eliminate female genital mutilation by making the practice illegal in Ireland.

Athlone Community Radio attended the MAMA Awards in the Abbey Theatre Dublin last Thursday, November 27, after being shortlisted in the Broadcast Media Category for Irena Cvetkovic’s programme ‘Across the Divide’.