Lourdes Youth & Community Services

BACKGROUND

Lourdes Youth & Community Services (LYCS) is a community development project based in Dublin’s North-East Inner City. LYCS seeks to empower local people to play a part in transforming their communities through Global Citizenship Education. This involves exploring issues relevant to the community (e.g. drug crime and abuse, poverty, inequality, education) from local and global perspectives. LYCS offers a variety of learning opportunities, prioritising people living locally and those experiencing poverty and social exclusion.

CURRENT PROJECTS

​LYCS’ Global Citizenship Education programme provides opportunities for people to explore the development challenges faced locally, in Ireland, and in communities around the world, and empowers them with information and knowledge to act on these inequalities.  It fosters critical thinking, active citizenship, and a sense of a shared struggle for a fairer and more equal world. LYCS has played a key role in engaging with the Development Education sector and Irish Aid to promote an understanding of how local-global learning can be an effective educational tool for the community sector. 

Current projects:

LYCS provides services to approximately 250 people each week and promotes the integration of Global Citizenship Education into its five programmes of work: Early Years Centre; Youth Work Programme; Community Training Centre; Adult Education Programme and Community Employment Scheme.

For further information visit: https://www.lycs.ie/