Castlebar’s Aisling Neary has made her way through to the final 20 in the Outstanding Young Persons of the World competition, which is being run by Junior Chambers International. Neary, who is from Rathbawn in Castlebar, has been nominated under the humanitarian/voluntary leadership section. After qualifying as a nurse she joined Health Action Overseas and worked with children in an orphanage in Romania, before travelling in Australia and providing nursing to families living in the underdeveloped Australian bush.
Two years ago she went to Ghana as part of an outreach team and provided eye screening to remote villages in the country. After meeting one local chief who explained the struggle his people were having in sending their children to school because of their impoverished state she returned to Ireland where she raised €26,000 to build a new school which was completed five months later. The public can vote for Aisling by logging on to www.jci.cc/toypvote
