Iorras Le Chéile Community Development Project would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make Erris Anti-Bullying Week 2011, which carried the theme Free to Be Me, a huge success.
Events included a Live Broadcast of MidWest Radio’s Tommy Marren Show from the offices of Iorras Le Chéile. Representatives from local schools, members of community groups and a number of people working in the area of bullying spoke on the show. Local children from Binghamstown National School also performed their anti-bullying chant live on air. On the same day teenagers from the three local secondary schools created the town’s first Community Anti-Bullying Wall.
That evening Sylvia Lancaster from the UK based SOPHIE Foundation was the guest speaker at a Community Information Evening. The evening also included a presentation of the base-line study results by Dr Stephen Minton of the Anti-Bullying Centre, Trinity and the launch of the Erris Community Anti-Bullying Charter.
Rose Conway-Walsh, Co-ordinator of Iorras Le Chéile said: “We continue to cultivate a community response to bullying, whether it happens in schools, community, home or workplace. We all have a part to play and from the number of people involved from the wider community this year we feel people are taking individual and collective responsibility addressing the issue of bullying.”
