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Aims: to increase the awareness of birth as a natural event rather than
as a medical problem; to present home birth as an option; to work for
the reintegration of home birth into the general medical services. Group
meetings in Dublin for prospective parents. Library service available on a
postal basis to members, containing over 250 books, tapes and videos.
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Homeless Agency
Parkgate Hall, 6–9 Conyngham Road, Dublin 8
Tel: (01) 703 6100, 9.00am – 5.00pm Fax: (01) 703 6170
Email: homeless@dublincity.ie Web: www.homelessagency.ie
Set up as part of the government’s strategy on homelessness. The Agency
is responsible for the management and co-ordination of services to people
who are homeless in the Dublin area, and for the implementation of agreed
action plans which aim to eliminate homelessness in the capital by 2010.
The Agency has a partnership structure, bringing together the voluntary and
statutory agencies responsible for planning, funding and delivering services
to people who are homeless. The Agency is at the hub of homeless services:
leading the services in the implementation of action plans; providing training,
support and information; undertaking research on the nature and extent
of homelessness and research into best practice in tackling homelessness;
developing policy and service development proposals; administering funding
to services and monitoring and evaluating those services.
Publications: Bi-monthly newsletter; Cornerstone (quarterly magazine);
Homeless Directory 2007–2008; A key to the door – action plan on
homelessness 2007–2010.
Hope Foundation, The
3 Clover Lawn, Skehard Road, Cork
Tel: (021) 429 2990, 9.00am – 5.00pm Mon to Fri Fax: (021) 429 3432
Email: office@hopefoundation.ie Website: www.hopefoundation.ie
Works with street children in Calcutta in the areas of healthcare,
accommodation, education, vocational training, counselling and human
rights advocacy. The Irish office is concerned with raising funds for more
than 50 projects that are funded and operated by the Hope Foundation
with 14 partner organisations in India. The Foundation works towards
the restoration of the rights of the child and is involved in human rights
advocacy through anti-trafficking and anti child-labour campaigns in both
Ireland and India.
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