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12th December 2016
10:46pm GMT
“At a time when life is financially harder for most of us, the generosity of people in Kerry is inspiring and absolutely vital to support ActionAid’s work.” Siobhan McGee, Chief Executive of ActionAid Ireland said.Those from Kerry have sponsored 700 children in Africa and Asia since 1983. Thankfully, the of the country are also charitable as Action Aid found that over the last 20 years almost 20,000 Irish child sponsors have helped ActionAid transform the lives of people in some of the world’s poorest countries.
“We are grateful to everyone across Ireland who has stuck with us during hard times, we have sponsors who have been with us for more than 30 years! Currently almost 6,000 children are being sponsored by Irish people but following the recession we urgently need more people to step forward and help change a life.” McGee added.The top 10 most generous counties per percentage of population according to ActionAid are:
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