Check out this simple guide for how to kickstart your everyday activism!
The Global Goals
The Global Goals map out a fifteen-year plan to tackle poverty and inequality and to protect our planet from climate change.
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Concern's objectives, activities and achievements in 2019 can be found in our new annual report.
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Everyday activism
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Everyday activism guide
Our collective activism will play a vital part in achieving the Global Goals and making the changes our world needs to eradicate hunger, poverty, inequality, and injustice.
Do as much as you can, as well as you can, for as long as you can, for as many as you can.
Change is needed, and it is needed urgently. It will not come about through the actions of our governments alone. It cannot be simply left to international institutions like the UN or even NGOs like Concern. Fundamental change really must involve all of us.
Activism redefined
People in Ireland have a long, proud history of taking action for what they believe to be right. Remember the courageous Dunnes’ workers who went on strike in the 1980s in solidarity with those living under apartheid in South Africa? Or the bold women who boarded the contraceptive train to Belfast in 1971?
However, activism does not always have to be about impassioned protest. There are small things that every single one of us can do to make our world a better place, whether you're the stressed student, overloaded parent or weary worker. We can fit everyday activism into our everyday lives.
Begin with Project Us
What social problems upset you the most? What injustices infuriate you? It could be children forced to live in hotel rooms, corruption and corporate greed or wanton environmental destruction.
Concern’s Project Us is a unique forum (online and off) that provides the space for communities across Ireland to reflect, connect and get ideas sparking. You could take your first steps as an activist by coming along to one of our Project Us coffee conversation events around Ireland.
Other ways to be an activist
Connect with others
Find out what others are doing locally, nationally or internationally on your issue. Contact expert groups who may be able to advise you on the role you can play.
Support organisations
Speak out respectfully
Resources for everyday activists
Everyday Activism
Download our handbook to get loads of ideas of what you can do to be a better citizen. After all, we need your continued activism to help continue our journey and to reach our goals.
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Everyday Activism Handbook|PDF(4 MB)
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11.5 M
people reached through our emergency response
10.1 M
people reached through our health interventions
15.1 M
people reached through our long term development programmes
