HOPe Benefit in NYC

A local charity organization, HOPe, is holding a fundraiser in Rosie O'Grady's in New York on Thursday, November 13, to support their efforts to provide care and assistance to those struck by poverty throughout the world.

Since its foundation HOPe, which stands for Helping Other People, has been instrumental in reducing poverty and providing better lives for people in various countries in the developing world, including Angola, Tanzania, Peru, Cambodia, Zimbabwe and Ecuador. Most recently, ongoing efforts in Honduras, Angola and Peru keep the organization busy.

One of their main goals is to teach self-sufficiency by focusing on projects that open doors for people and enable them to take ownership when HOPe's project comes to an end.

HOPe has supported a series of projects in the San Pedro Sula area of Honduras.

The first, a community center and health clinic, offers computer classes to children and adults. The second, a health clinic and school, provides much-needed care and support to a deeply impoverished neighborhood.

Ground has been broken on the third project, a small dispensary and health clinic that will serve more remote areas.

Chairperson of the organization Siobhan O'Shea, whose father Gerry O'Shea from Kerry was one of the founders of HOPe, traveled to Honduras with treasurer Eileen Kennedy last May to be present at the opening of a the health clinic and school in Chaloma. "It was just fantastic to see the work being done there," she said, adding "and we're not finished yet."

O'Shea, 35, told the Irish Voice that the organization has just joined forces with AIDS Partnership in Africa (APA), an organization set up by a Wicklow priest called Owen Lambert. "This is a huge undertaking and we have spent the last six to eight months looking into the project, investigating it, and we have just recently agreed to partner with the organization," said O'Shea, who works with a human resource-consulting firm in Manhattan, Towers Perrin.

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