COVER: SUICIDE PREVENTION.

• Disabled fight 80% jobless rate.
• Contracts issued for 10 new CDPs.
• Counselling and Community Development.
• Publicans brought to court; CDP offers advice (Cork).
• Islands bridge the digital divide (Mayo/Galway).
• Report from Columbia.
• Ten essentials for Volunteers.

COVER: VOLUNTEER WORK.

• Editorial: Should creating poverty be a crime?
• Should Counseling and Community Development really go together?
• CWC works on despite funding cut (Galway).
• Women dole out the truth on inequality (Donegal).
• Boost for project working with town’s ‘forgotten people’ (Tipperary).
• Community & Voluntary Sector is “primitive and under-developed”.
• Whisper it: Community development is political.

COVER: I’M NOT RACIST BUT…

• Anti-racism work (Cork, Limerick).
• CWC works on despite funding cut (Galway).
• 15 communities get new projects.
• ‘Na briseadh suas an clár náisiunta!’
• Relief as FAS Schemes saved (Cork, Kerry, Donegal).
• Challenge the ‘End of poverty’ assertion!
• Papering over inner-city poverty (Dublin).

COVER: WHY DO THE POOR DIE YOUNGER?

• Invisible people – recognising baby deaths.
• Schools behaving badly.
• Minister O’Cuiv takes the hard questions.
• Ireland’s worst drug… Alcohol.
• Your power to advocate.
• International development focus.

COVER: CLASS APARTHEID IN SCHOOLS.

• Eircom bows to CDP pressure.
• Tralee CDP wins two awards.
• Poor health linked to indebtedness.
• Support Agency contracts announced.
• Africa teaches us a thing or two.
• Mentoring… Gender inequality… Disability terminology.

• What works for you?
• Older people forced from work.
• Travellers with a healthy future.
• New disability agency launched – DESSA.
• Drug deaths remembered with hope.
• Strong reaction to Department’s changes.

• Communities seek a brighter future.
• Noel Ahern on CDPs.
• ‘Wake’ for Fatima Mansion Flats.
• Focus on Brazil.
• Know how to make the news.
• Mayo Kids confront stereotypes.
• Drug awareness in Limerick.

• Work on accessibility.
• Viewing Ennis through a lens.
• Disability issues and development projects.
• Quality of life flourishes in North West.
• News from Cavan to Cork to the Capital.
• Ó Cuiv supports CDSPs plan.
• Reviewing the review.

• Anti racism in Dublin & Cork.
• Women take to the high seas.
• Drogheda video shows pride.
• European Year of People with Disabilities.
• Dublin Community’s proud struggle.
• White paper on Voluntary Activity.
• Mini-World Cup in Limerick.

• President launches North West Network.
• Dublin Projects key to people’s development.
• Christy Moore backs Ennis Group.
• Action on violence against women.
• West Training evaluate CE.
• Men need to talk more.
• Review Changes and Cuts.

• New Minister Eamon O’Cuiv interview.
• New Department for communities.
• CDSP consultation seminars.
• Special focus: Including Republican ex-prisoners.
• FORUM: 11 years on from ‘bleakest poverty’ report.
• Development work overseas: Philippines and Uzbekstan.
• Burn-out among community workers: Lorcan Brennan investigates.
• Margaret Casey: A volunteer without time for lunch-breaks.
• Psychological effects of unemployment.

• Donegal in the spotlight.
• Health Board embraces empowerment model.
• RAPID needs to speed up.
• ‘In From the Margins’ seminar.
• Finding the C.I.C. in Clifden.
• Intercultural Ireland.
• Lone parents log on.

• Project impacts are “incredible” – Nexus.
• “Mammy, what’s community development?”
• Irish Travellers in South Africa become ‘white’.
• Support for a national men’s forum.
• CWC ‘dragged’ into controversy.
• CWC celebrates 21st year.
• Galway Travellers use media to resist.
• Family Support Agency bill approved in Dáil.
• Single parents survey dismisses the myths.

• Homophobia bars community participation.
• Paulo Freire’s teachings in an Irish context.
• Training for Transformation: Still relevant?
• Women’s Aid: 25 years tackling violence.
• Sex and disability.
• Rural transport in Cavan.
• International Year of the Volunteer.
• Seanie Lambe in profile.
• Launch of Family Resource Centre National Forum.

Changing Ireland’s debut issue

• N.O.W. there’s change!
• Wexford children teaching computer classes.
• The nun and the lolly.
• Visualising inclusion.
• Accidental Volunteers.
• Emancipating the Women in North Mayo.
• K.A.N. survivors of mental ill-health help others.

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