Wednesday I went with Eileen to the
Garda station (police station). It was an open house to the community
and they were bringing schools in to give them tours throughout the
day. Because of the FAN projects connection with the JLO they were
invited to come down and set up room to talk about the centre. The
night before Martina, Dara, Laura, and Eileen worked hard to put
together an information board. We met up with EFFORTS and took over
from there as they had been there during the early morning. It was
really interesting but super hard to explain so I think I will just
add a bunch of pictures to show you kind of what it was like. They
were showing cells, cars, hand cuffing kids, showing them guns,
drugs, riot uniforms.. really all kind of crazy. But then again..
really interesting to see. Different a bit from how we do open house
tours in our stations back home.
Later in the evening I got to attend a
funding event put on by Dublin Bus. I guess every year Dublin Bus
takes all the unclaimed money from people who over pay (like if the
ticket is 1.57 euro and people give 2) and have different
organizations write in about a need for a specific project they would
like to get funding for. Dublin Bus goes over the applications and
picks ones to give money to. They invite all the winners to this
event but don't tell them how much they won. So if your proposal got
picked you are invited find out if you are either getting 1000, 2000,
or 5000 euro. Then they present the cheques at the event. It was
super nice, they provide some drinks and a bunch of famous Irish
people come out to support the event. Really good for networking and
just prompting the work of your agency. FAN and EFFORTS put a
proposal together, so they are going to split the money but it was
exciting because they got 2000 Euro. Really fun night with Laura.
Wednesday I went with Eileen to the
Garda station (police station). It was an open house to the community
and they were bringing schools in to give them tours throughout the
day. Because of the FAN projects connection with the JLO they were
invited to come down and set up room to talk about the centre. The
night before Martina, Dara, Laura, and Eileen worked hard to put
together an information board. We met up with EFFORTS and took over
from there as they had been there during the early morning. It was
really interesting but super hard to explain so I think I will just
add a bunch of pictures to show you kind of what it was like. They
were showing cells, cars, hand cuffing kids, showing them guns,
drugs, riot uniforms.. really all kind of crazy. But then again..
really interesting to see. Different a bit from how we do open house
tours in our stations back home.
Later in the evening I got to attend a
funding event put on by Dublin Bus. I guess every year Dublin Bus
takes all the unclaimed money from people who over pay (like if the
ticket is 1.57 euro and people give 2) and have different
organizations write in about a need for a specific project they would
like to get funding for. Dublin Bus goes over the applications and
picks ones to give money to. They invite all the winners to this
event but don't tell them how much they won. So if your proposal got
picked you are invited find out if you are either getting 1000, 2000,
or 5000 euro. Then they present the cheques at the event. It was
super nice, they provide some drinks and a bunch of famous Irish
people come out to support the event. Really good for networking and
just prompting the work of your agency. FAN and EFFORTS put a
proposal together, so they are going to split the money but it was
exciting because they got 2000 Euro. Really fun night with Laura. 
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