Hi everyone,  my name is  Shane and I am a first year law student at University College Dublin.This year I have been lucky enough to have recieved the opportunity to travel to Nicaragua on a developmental project with UCD Volunteers Overseas. Together with 20 other volunteers I will spend 4 weeks in the poverty  stricken  village  of Somoto where we will partake in both infrastructural and educational developmental  projects to  help increase the quality of life in the area. These  projects will be run in conjunction with a number of  local NGOs such as INPRHU, Xomothl and MCN. Since  its foundation the  Nicaragua project has been hugely successful and has resulted in the construction of Health centers in Santa Isabela and El Kairo , drip irrigation systems in many local communities,  a pre-school and primary school in Las Palmiras and a Library in  Los Quinchos.Every volunteer is responsible for raising a sum of 2,600 euros to fund project costs and volunteer training. I will be conducting a series of fundraising events to try and meet this target. However, your  help would be greatly appreciated. Please donate whatever  you can. Your donation is transfered directly into the UCDVO account where it can have immediate effect.I appreciate each and every donation and no sum is ever too small .Please help us continue the positive tradition that the Nicaragua project  has established and let us build upon its success.

Voluntary organisation for UCD students, staff and graduates to engage in volunteering and global citizenship education programmes.

• €10
  Various Donors

• €40
  Rony Gadiwalla

  We are very proud of you Shane!

• €310
  Various Donors

• €325
  Various Donors

• €240

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  John Abbey

• €50
  aideen tatton

  Best wishes to all involved in this project.

• €100
  Various Donors

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  Gregory O'Hanlon

• €310
  Various Donors

• €20
  Teresa Ryan

• €80
  Various Donors

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  Aoife Gordon

• €135
  Various Donors

• €30