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Lamh Failte helping the homeless, is a non-profit organisation founded and set up in Dublin in 2020. We help homeless people by providing a food and clothing stall on North Earl Street, here in Dublin City. We hand out hot homemade tasty dishes, cold dishes, hot fluids, clothing items, sleeping bags, toiletries, snacks, portions of fruit, and we also give out takeaway dishes, every Saturday evening. Our group is ran by volunteers and there are about 20 to 25 of us at any given time. All of our volunteers source and cook the donations in their own homes, then we meet up on North Earl Street every Saturday from 7.15 pm to around 9:30 pm. We rely heavily on donations from the public and local business. We are not a registered charity and cannot accept cash donations.

Jobcare is a for-purpose organisation whose mission is to help jobseekers find and keep satisfying employment. At Jobcare we believe that working matters. Working brings income, brings structure to the day, brings physical, mental, emotional, and indeed for some, spiritual satisfaction. Working positively impacts family life, friends, neighbours and community acquaintances. Working contributes financially to the overall economy. Working matters. Jobcare has for the past 30 years been serving the needs of unemployed people in Dublin’s City Centre, and now across all the island as well. From a starting point in 1994 of 1 full-time and 6 staff on work programmes, the charity has grown to 12 full-time staff and 55 staff on work programmes – (a work programme is a combination of work experience and training for long-term unemployed people). Currently, Jobcare provides 20 courses in job-seeking skills per year to over 1000 people. Our resource and advice centre caters for over 9,000 visits per year. We also provide wrap-around supports such as computer courses for jobseekers needing to upskill in this area. Major accomplishments of Jobcare include: 1. Development and establishment of the ‘Trasna’ Programme for ex-offenders in 2008. Since then 108 ex-offenders have participated in the programme. Of these 56% have progressed to employment or further education. The reoffending rate for Trasna is 9% compared with the National average of 45%. Paul Mooney, Jobcare’s Chief Executive and Co-founder was twice an awardee of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland in recognition of his pioneering work to address this pressing societal issue. 2. In late 2010, recognising the unprecedented increase in unemployment among professionals and graduates due to the economic crisis, Jobcare developed a new programme of support targeted at this new group of unemployed who were being left behind. In its first twenty programmes "Jobnet" provided support for over 900 professionals and graduates with 65% retraining or regaining employment (62% in employment). Peter Johnson, Director of the Jobnet Programme, received an award from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland in 2013 for the transformative impact of this initiative for jobseeking professionals. We are very grateful to the many companies, large and small, that support Jobcare in a practical or financial way. If you believe that ‘working matters’, we invite you to partner with us in helping unemployed people, either directly by hiring them, or indirectly by sharing talent, technology and resources with Jobcare. For example, we benefit from surplus food donations from Marks and Spencer. These enable us to provide snacks and lunch for our unemployed transitional work programme participants and snacks for our unemployed clients. Whether having lunch around a table or enjoying a coffee break together, providing food and building community are both really valuable for our unemployed people.

Our vision at Peter McVerry Trust is an Ireland that supports all those on the margins and upholds their rights to full inclusion in society. As a homeless and housing charity, our aims are: - To target those most marginalised in society and offer a safe, challenging and supportive environment through our service provision. - To treat participants with warmth and respect and actively encourage them to be involved in all aspects of their own support plan. - To offer a comprehensive prevention package of support to reduce the likelihood of homelessness to those leaving care, those leaving treatment, those leaving prison or other institutions and those whose accommodation is vulnerable. - To offer a comprehensive package of support that will provide the best opportunity possible for them and assist them in planning a pathway out of homelessness or drug use, or if they continue to use drugs, to assist them towards some level of stabilisation in order to live a life of dignity, with respect and opportunity. - To assist each person to re-establish himself or herself in the community and move towards greater independence. Peter McVerry Trust provides services in the areas of prevention, homeless services, housing, under 18's and drug treatment services- and are an approved housing body, We have placed over 200 people in their own homes to date, with an objective of 450 housing units by 2020. In line with our housing-led approach to ending homelessness, the provision of support to people - both in our accommodation services and those who have moved to independent living - is a key component in ensuring a long term, sustainable solution to homelessness. The support services range across intensive housing supports, visiting housing supports, and through the SLI (Support to Live Independently) Scheme that Peter McVerry Trust delivers under the Housing First initiative. The Housing First model focuses on the immediate provision of long term/permanent accommodation for those that a homeless with supports and services subsequently built around the needs of each individual. The Housing with Support service provides 1 to 1 visits as well as an on-call service that operates around the clock for 365 days of the year. In 2016, Peter McVerry Trust's Housing with Supports team made a total of 12,500 visits. Peter McVerry Trust employ a team of Housing Officers to assist and support our participants in developing life skills, building confidence and working towards independent living and social integration. Within our housing services, the wrap around supports are crucial in providing support in areas ranging from loneliness and integration within a new community, to mental health, addiction or personal care needs. Support is provided to an individual for as long as they need it, to ensure they can retain their tenancies and integrate in to their community.