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WorldWise Global Schools Directory of GCE Facilitators
Workshop Providers
Facilitators featured on this page work directly with post-primary education settings to deliver engaging training and workshops. Schools can use their Global Passport grant funding to access these supports.
To get the most from facilitator sessions, and to ensure they reflect the WWGS Guiding Principles, educators should use the WWGS Scaffolding Events Guide and the WWGS Ethical Communications Guide. These resources also provide strong evidence for your Global Passport application.
Important: All facilitators listed on this page are provided for informational purposes only. Schools and organisations are solely responsible for ensuring that any facilitator they engage meets all required standards, including current Garda Vetting.
Afri
Afri uses workshops with post-primary teachers and students to tackle ‘the four legged stool’: Climate Change, War, Forced Migration and Hunger. Afri supports schools to take informed action for change using the ‘Sowing the Seeds of Peace’ resource in workshops.
AkiDwA
Akidwa promotes equality and justice for migrant women in Ireland, addressing harmful practices like Female Genital Mutilation and Early and Forced Marriages. Through community engagement and partnerships, it raises awareness, provides support, and empowers women to advocate for their rights.
Brigit's Garden, Galway
Brigit’s Garden hosts a 3-hour Global Goals Challenge where students role-play refugee families and explore issues like food, water, energy, and inequality.
Children in Crossfire
Children in Crossfire aim to embed their ‘Educating the Heart’ in schools in the North of Ireland. They are committed to a whole school approach in embedding Global Citizenship Education through their framework ‘Compassion Compass’ and head heart and hands model.
Ciara Burke
These workshops explore contemporary global issues such as migration, human rights, climate change, gender inequality, using creative, participatory methods. Participants discuss these topics, fostering understanding of our interconnectedness and inspiring action as local and global active citizens.
Cloughjordan Eco Village
Veronica Ryan
A living laboratory for sustainable living, providing immersive educational experiences and guided tours. It shares practical knowledge and real-world solutions to environmental and social challenges, inspiring and empowering people to adopt sustainable practices and support a low-carbon future.
Concern WorldWide
Supports teachers and students in understanding the root causes of global challenges like climate change, conflict, and poverty. Offers opportunities to develop skills, collaborate with peers, and generate innovative solutions.
Development Perspectives
Development Perspectives runs the SDG Challenge Schools, helping schools become Active Global Citizenship hubs. Through workshops and training for students, teachers, and leaders, they explore root causes of global issues and our connection to each other and the natural world.
Eco-Unesco
ECO-UNESCO offers in-school and virtual workshops plus leadership training, empowering students to take action on climate change, sustainability, education access, and ethical consumption.
Financial Justice Ireland
FJI embeds critical financial education in curricula and activities. Through training and collaboration, FJI co-creates classroom resources that help students understand, question, and engage with financial justice, guided by teachers’ feedback and needs.
Global Action Plan (GAP)
Programmes to support school communities in making a difference towards a healthier planet, a safer, more just world and a more caring global community.
Irish Aid
It provides Global Citizenship Education through a range of programmes and supports for learners from primary to third level and the non-formal sector, offering workshops and resources that use games and activities to teach students about global development, Irish Aid’s work worldwide, and Ireland’s contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Michelle Phillips
Diversion Green is a social enterprise offering food waste prevention and education through workshops and audits. Its work aligns with SDGs including No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Responsible Consumption, Climate Action, Life Below Water, and Life On Land.
Nadia Moussed
Global Youth Work programmes that promote inclusion, equality, and active global citizenship. Uses participatory methods to engage learners and educators while helping young people explore global justice issues and take informed action in their communities.
Rediscovery Centre
Rediscovery Centre offers a wide variety of hands-on and interactive workshops on a variety of STEM and environmental topics. Our workshops are linked to second-level curriculum subjects, including science, geography, maths, CSPE, ESS and art, craft and design.
Saphara
Saphara empowers young people to create just and compassionate communities locally and globally, encouraging them to Be the Change they want to see. Its vision is a generation of Northern Irish young leaders building inclusive, peaceful communities where everyone—especially the most marginalised—is valued.
Schools of Sanctuary
Schools of Sanctuary work with schools to build cultures of welcome, safety and inclusion, supporting staff and students to celebrate diversity, take positive community action through visits, guidance, and resources.
Self Help Africa
Self Help Africa has a team of GCE facilitators available to visit schools to deliver workshops on topics such as: sustainable agriculture, trade justice, gender equality and ethical fashion.
Síolta Chroí
GCE through ecosystem restoration is a powerful and hopeful message for students and staff alike.
Sonairte Visitor and Eco Centre
Workshops explore local and global sustainability and justice, learning to care for the planet, people, and all species. Sonairte connects schools with asylum seekers and the Traveller community, fostering respect, empathy, and inclusion, while supporting students from these communities to feel valued.
Sustainable Living initiative (Slí)
This programme trains TY students on GCE topics through a week-long seminar, preparing them to lead school assemblies. It deepens their understanding of migration and its links to climate justice.
Tearfund Ireland & Comhlámh End Orphanage Volunteering Working Group
Just Care: Just Volunteering highlights the harms of orphanage volunteering and provides workshops and educational tools to help learners and educators explore these issues and promote ethical, family-based care.
The Change Agency
Facilitates groups of learners by guiding inquiry, exploring worldviews, values and systems of oppression, helping participants create new meaning over time, while responding sensitively to the group’s needs and applying a deep understanding of WWGS principles.
The Centre for Global Education
The Centre for Global Education delivers a Whole School Approach to Global Citizenship Education to teachers and senior leaders in the North of Ireland. They cover key themes such as the causes of poverty, inequality and injustice.
Trócaire
Trócaire’s Development Education programme engages young people and their teachers, exploring issues of global justice and human rights. Through their resources, bespoke workshops and GCE programmes (Game Changers and The Right Focus), they support young people on their GCE journey, and encourage participation and action.
UNICEF Ireland
It supports young people to become active global citizens through rights-based education and youth activism, offering participatory learning experiences and Transition Year Activism training that help students understand the Sustainable Development Goals and take meaningful local action connected to global issues.
Young Social Innovators
Young Social Innovators (YSI) is a non-profit organisation that empowers young people to use their creativity and agency to develop and act on innovative solutions to social challenges, promoting a more caring, equal, and fair world.
Are you a GCE facilitator and you would like to be included in the list?
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