Cloughfin NS represent Donegal nationally at Irish Aid Awards

The school is located in Ballindrait, Lifford has been selected as one of 10 schools to attend the Our World Irish Aid Awards national final in Dublin next month

Cloughfin National School pupils have been chosen to represent Donegal at the final of the Our World Irish Aid Awards.

Third, Fourth and Fifth-Class pupils will join nine other national finalists from other counties in Ireland at a ceremony to be held at Dublin Castle on Thursday, June 13.

Cloughfin National School is one of just ten schools in Ireland to be in the running for one of seven prestigious Our World Irish Aid Awards comprising the Changemakers Award, Gaeilge Award, Performance Award, Food for Life Award, Countries in Focus Award, Teacher of the Year and the coveted School of the Year Award.

Each of the ten schools will also have their work featured in a special printed edition of the Global Goal Getters annual which will be distributed nationwide.

The project submitted by Cloughfin National School comprises a series of colourful, informative display boards focusing on this year’s Awards theme Food for Life and which includes reference to a food growing project carried out by the pupils.

“Each of the projects submitted by the ten finalists demonstrates an impressive level of insight and understanding of what are complex global issues that have a devastating impact on the most vulnerable in our world,” Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora, Sean Fleming TD said.

“I really look forward to meeting the pupils from Cloughfin National School and their teacher at the national final. I know that there is a great sense of excitement around the opportunity to gather together to celebrate each other’s success.

“I am also looking forward to personally thanking our primary school teachers for their continued commitment, not just to participating in the Awards, but also to nurturing an ethos of global citizenship amongst our young people, which is essential if we are all to play an individual and collective part in making the world a better place for all.”

Now in their 19th year, the Our World Irish Aid Awards have seen tens of thousands of primary school pupils across Ireland learn about Irish Aid and its work to help improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable citizens. This year’s theme was Food for All.