HOPE has been working with secondary schools and with thousands of students all across Ireland since 2003 through fundraising and awareness programmes.
Terence MacSwiney Community College students have travelled to Kolkata in India 7 times since 2003.
The last trip (pre-COVID) was in 2020 when teachers Ms. McLoughlin & Ms. Keane brought 5 Transition Year students Kimberly, Jamie, Rebecca, Sean & Katelynn to Kolkata. Students fundraised for months in order to make the trip and were involved in a painting project to make the schools they visited more colorful and engaging places to be.