Key Achievements

Establishing the Roma Community Development Project (2019) and its expansion in 2022 to conduct a health-based needs analysis…

Securing a three year funding package from Rethink Ireland (2022) to tackle education disadvantage among Traveller and Roma…

Refurbishing the Big Isle halting site in Manorcunningham (2020), a testament to 15 years of negotiating between DTP…

Representing the DTP at the UN committee of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva (2019) where the…

Launching a Women’s Awareness project, the first of its kind for DTP (2022) that will focus on domestic,…

Publishing Ireland’s most comprehensive research into Traveller men’s mental health (2022),which will inform future policy at a local…

Hosting scores of Intercultural Training initiatives across the county which offer bespoke training and explore Interculturalism, Diversity and…

Expanding our Primary Health Care team across Co Donegal. In 2020 the team conducted a Community Survey with…

Creating a unique Diversity Aware online programme designed to empower individuals and employers to acknowledge and understand diversity…

A Growing number of staff members from the Traveller community are graduating from Maynooth University with a Certificate…

Co-founding the Building Intercultural Communities Project (BIC) under the Special European Union Programmes Body (SEUPB) in collaboration with…

Developing St Gabriel’s as a unique indoor/ outdoor, Intercultural preschool delivering the full early childhood curriculum to children…

Over 80% of the staff of DTP are members of the Traveller community.

Over two and a half decades of independent Community Development work, working for and with the Traveller and…