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Agent Smith wrote: »

enable ireland ?

Worked for them for years... a very good cause especially these days when people dont donate clothes, they sell them to those shops that pay per bag.

Many also give clothes to the "stickers" crowd. These people are pure out thieves who pretend they are collecting clothes to sell to help children, people with cancer etc but are just lining their own wallets. Pure thugs too, known to attack and steal van loads of collected clothes from legit charities.

WileyCoyote wrote: »

Any womens refuge.
While a lot of hospitals etc get all the attention (I don't begrudge it) a lot of very scared and traumatized kids will spend this Christmas in a refuge with their mum. They are a very deserving cause.

ADAPT House in Limerick being one.

the_syco wrote: »

Leaving out the politics for another thread, here are three such places;

In Bray http://www.braywomensrefuge.com/index.php/contact-us

In Tallaght http://www.saoirsewomensrefuge.ie/Contact.htm

Northside/ Coolock http://www.aoibhneas.ie/contact.php

Looked through their sites, and they all take in women & children, and all seem to have fixed places. You'll probably need women to drop off the stuff, for obvious reasons.

Also Viva House in Blanchardstown - http://www.homelessagency.ie/Media/2010-News/Viva-House,-Blanchardstown-(Emergency-Service-for-.aspx

If you need anyone to do a drop around Dublin 15 and can't find anyone, let me know.

Don Bosco is a charity organisation that runs Teenage Care homes for disadvantaged boys who for whatever reason, cannot rely on their own parents for their care.

Instead they can go to Don Bosco centres where they will receive food, shelter, care, counseling, support, motivation, encouragement and much needed stability.

http://www.teenagecare.ie/

Although they care for older teenagers as well they also help with school going children.

These are the type of kids whos parents have failed them and are at risk of falling into a life of crime and drugs. This charity offers intensive support to boys at risk and tries to keep them on the straight and narrow.

Although they do get some support from the HSE I am sure they could always use a helping hand and I am sure some of the children in question could do with a happy christmas.

Don Bosco House Head Office
12 Clontarf Road
Dublin 3.
Contact: Martin Burke
Ph: 087 9445462
martin@donbosco.ie

A quote from their website

"The children at Don Bosco Teenage Care haven't wasted their first chance and this isn't a second chance, they simply had the misfortune of being born into a situation where their families weren't equipped emotionally or financially to give them the upbringing other people take for granted. Every cent will make a difference, every cent will go towards counseling, development and the well-being of children who haven't been given a chance in life. We haven't given up on them and rather appropriately, we teach them that their lives have value."