OPERATION SMILE:International children's charity Operation Smile provides surgery to repair cleft lip, palates and other facial deformities.
Louise Kavanagh, a sixth year student in Mount Anville school, set up an Operation Smile club in her school back in 2007. Since then, the group has raised over €42,000 and taken part in education programmes in the Philippines, while other Irish students travelled to missions in Vietnam, Ethiopia, India, Morocco, and Kenya.
This year, Louise received the Logan Taylor Memorial Award at Operation Smile’s International Student Leadership Conference in Virginia, US. Every year this award is given to an international student who shows leadership, compassion, commitment and cultural sensitivity. Louise is now planning a Leadership Day in the Royal College of Surgeons on February 3rd, 2010. All TY students are invited to attend.
For further information, e-mail louisekavanagh91@hotmail.com or visit operationsmile.org
Student Shopping Card
With business haemorrhaging across the border, a group of school students in Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School, New Ross, have created special student cards as part of their TY enterprise module.
The aim is encourage students to shop in small local businesses. Over 60 business from Kilkenny, Wexford and Waterford are taking part in this initiative, which was launched last Friday.
