Aidlink Ireland

07/10/2026

💚 Aidlink warmly welcomes the €14 million increase in Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Budget 2027.

At a time when humanitarian needs are growing and communities around the world are facing the increasing impacts of climate change, conflict and poverty, Ireland’s continued commitment to overseas development assistance matters.

For Aidlink, Irish Aid support is helping us work alongside communities in Turkana and Kajiado counties in Kenya, areas deeply affected by climate change and home to Masai and Turkana communities.

Through our Let Children Learn project, we are working to improve primary education and help more children enrol and remain in school — with a particular focus on girls and children with disabilities. This includes addressing barriers such as early marriage and FGM, while supporting stronger, more inclusive school communities.

We are incredibly grateful to Irish Aid for its continued support and partnership. 💚

Ireland’s commitment to ODA makes a real difference — helping communities build brighter, more resilient futures and ensuring that children have the opportunity to learn and thrive.

Thank you to the Irish Government and Irish people for continuing to support international development.

30/09/2026

A message from Aidlink CEO Anne Cleary in response to the article in today’s Irish Times which raises deeply troubling questions about what is happening to elephants in the Amboseli ecosystem.

“I have just returned from Kenya, where we work alongside Maasai communities living close to Amboseli. What struck me again and again is how closely the future of people and wildlife is intertwined.
In recent months, elephants have been entering local primary schools in search of food and water. Their traditional routes and grazing areas are increasingly disrupted, and the consequences are felt by both communities and wildlife.
The reported deaths of elephants in the Amboseli area are deeply distressing. But the bigger story is the growing pressure on land, water, and traditional wildlife corridors — and the human-wildlife conflict that follows.
We cannot protect elephants by ignoring the safety and livelihoods of the communities who live alongside them. And we cannot protect communities by losing the elephants.
We need solutions that work for both: protecting children and schools, supporting Maasai communities, securing water and food, and safeguarding the corridors that elephants have followed for generations.
Having seen some of this first-hand, the challenge is not simply who is responsible. It is also: how do we find a way for people and elephants to live safely alongside each other?”

A spate of suspicious deaths has exposed mounting conflict over land, conservation and livelihoods in one of Kenya’s most celebrated wildlife havens

23/09/2026

Last week Aidlink was delighted to welcome an Irish Aid monitoring team to Kenya. Together with our long-standing partner, Girl Child Network Kenya (GCN), we travelled to Loitokitok in Kajiado County, home to the Masai community and one of the areas where we are working together through the Let Children Learn project, supported by Irish Aid.

The visit provided an opportunity to go beyond the project reports and see the work in action – visiting participating schools, meeting head teachers and trained Boards of Management, and hearing directly from students involved in Rights of the Child Clubs, teachers, community facilitators, women's groups and community members.

For Irish Aid, it was an opportunity to listen to the experiences of communities and understand the realities facing children and families here – from the impacts of climate change and persistent barriers to education, to the determination of communities to create better opportunities for their children.

Through Aidlink and GCN’s partnership, Let Children Learn is supporting schools and communities to strengthen children’s access to education, participation, and learning, while working alongside local structures to create lasting change.

We are grateful to the Irish Aid team for taking the time to listen, learn and engage directly with the communities at the heart of this work, and to our partners at Girl Child Network for their continued commitment and collaboration.

Together, we are working to ensure that every child has the opportunity to learn, participate and thrive.

19/06/2026

30/04/2026

Proud to partner with Girl Child Network Kenya on school farms through the five year 'Let Children Learn' programme.

01/04/2026

Students and teachers from St. Joseph's Secondary School, Rush Walk for Water in Masaka, Uganda during their Educational Immersion trip with Aidlink. More information about Walk for Water in our bio.