Giving something back
February 2, 2010 by dermot · Leave a Comment
minister o'cuiv with kids and skeleton
Last Sunday’s Business Post ran an interview I did with Della Clancy from business and children connecting NGO Junior Achievement Ireland about their ‘Enterprise Challenge’ programme, which encourages young people from poorer backgrounds to stay in school so they can go on to have a career in business or other areas.
‘‘People from inner city Dublin are very seriously underrepresented in third level education,” said Della Clancy, executive director, Junior Achievement Ireland. ‘‘Many of them don’t do the Leaving Cert, and there is no tradition of them going on to third level. If you are not conditioned in your home and community, it is quite difficult to do it.
‘‘The whole idea is to bring them into the college, which is near where they live and go to school, and show them that it is a friendly, interesting and exciting place. They had lots of fun around the labs in DIT, and we had some workshops in the college as well. The children were made to feel welcome and told about the different supports that are there to help them go on to third level.”
The full piece is through here on the SBP site.
For more info on Junior Achievement head over to their website here – www.juniorachievement.ie.
