St John’s college receive GOAL Humanitarian award
By William O'Connor
ST JOHN’S College in Ballyfermot received a special humanitarian award from one of the country’s leading aid agencies, reports William O’Connor.
St John’s were among a select number of schools from around the country to receive the 2017 GOAL Humanitarian School Award.
GOAL Development Education Co-ordinator, Louise Merrigan, with students
The primary and post-primary schools received the award from GOAL as a result of their participation in development education and fundraising activities organised by GOAL last year.
“GOAL established the ‘GOAL Humanitarian School Award’ in 2016 to inspire humanitarianism in primary and secondary schools across the country,” explained GOAL’s Development Education Coordinator, Louise Merrigan. “We did so with the objective of recognising the efforts of students and teachers to learn more about the realities of some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to take action for a better world.”
All schools received a special certificate confirming their award, and their name has been added to GOAL’s ‘Humanitarian Schools Roll of Honour’ on the GOAL website.
Primary and post-primary schools that are interested in a development education visit from GOAL should contact schools [at] goal [dot] ie
