Yvonne helps charity celebrate 50 successful years
A member of the Lasallian Family has displayed her commitment to our core values by lending support to a project that celebrates the generous spirit of people in Ireland in helping those in need over the past five decades.
Yvonne Joye, a member of the MEL Ireland Committee and part of the team at the De La Salle Pastoral Centre Dublin, has written a book to celebrate 50 years of Trocaire, one of Ireland’s best known charity organisations.
Trócaire is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. It was set up by the Irish Catholic Bishops in 1973 to express the concern of the Irish Church for the suffering of the world’s poorest and most oppressed people.
Trócaire’s partnership approach means they work through global Catholic networks and with local partners on the ground. When they help people, they work with them, so that they drive the entire process themselves. Solutions are not imposed on the people they help. Instead, they become the authors of their own destiny.
To mark the 50 successful years, Trocaire commissioned the book - ‘A Giving Island’ - which is not so much a celebration of Trocaire but a celebration of Irish generosity down through five decades, regardless of the economic, social and political situation on our island.
It is a coffee table type book interspersed with a number of interviews conducted by Yvonne with figureheads in Irish society, which magnificently captures the importance of Trocaire.
It was launched by former President of Ireland Mary Robinson in the College of Physicians in Kildare Street, Dublin, in advance of the Trocaire Lenten campaign.
Yvonne with her husband Niall at the launch of ‘A Giving Island’
Mary Robinson at the book launch