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Edmund Rice International
Edmund Rice International (ERI) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) granted Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) status at the United Nations in 2012. We are committed to working for children and young people who are marginalised due to poverty, lack of access to education, legal status, environmental degradation, or involvement in armed conflict.
International Projects & Partnerships
ERI works at the international level to promote and protect the rights of children and young people particularly in regard to education. Care for the environment is a value that is embedded in all that we do.
Inspired by the vision and life of Blessed Edmund Rice, we believe that education in all its forms offers opportunities for the promotion of a rights-based and faith-based approach to social justice and ecological advocacy.
We work in partnership with other faith-based groups in the promotion of peace and justice. Our work involves engagement with the change-makers at the international level in order to bring issues and situations to the attention of the international community at the United Nations.
Our main focus is the promotion of the Right to Education, the Rights of the Child and Care for the Earth. We are active in the eradication of poverty and in working with people suffering from HIV/AIDS.
In many parts of the world Edmund Rice people are working with and on behalf indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
How did we begin?
Edmund Rice International was founded jointly by two Roman Catholic religious congregations: the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. It was registered as a legal entity in 2007.
We seek to make real the original vision of Edmund Rice to answer the gospel call to establish God’s dream for the world through the promotion of justice and the liberation of people oppressed by poverty, marginalisation and social exclusion.
Current Projects
ERI works at the international level to promote and protect the rights of children and young people particularly in regard to education. Care for the environment is a value that is embedded in all that we do.
ERI believes in partnership and working with coalitions. It is already a partner organisation of Franciscans International, a highly respected Catholic NGO working at the global level. Through partnerships and coalitions ERI seeks to amplify the voice of the poor at the international level.
Students, Sierra Leone