Ireland Reaching Out crowdsourcing funding for training officer position

Ireland Reaching Out is a program which rather than finding someone's ancestors, it traces Irish people's descendants. It's a free service and non-profit, and it's turning to crowdsource funding to hire a full-time training officer for one year in the head office in Co Galway.

The training officer will train volunteers to give quality advice on their locality and to meet visitors and aid them in learning about their ancestral home:

'Besides pro-actively tracing people of Irish heritage around the world, if you have Irish ancestry, and are thinking of coming to Ireland, we make sure, as far as we can, that someone local is here to meet you when you arrive – someone who can show you around the place where your people came from, the house your people were born in, the land they once farmed, and where possible, introduce you to living relatives today.'

'If we put a training officer in place, we can make available many thousands of additional volunteers to the programme over the coming year.'

Ireland Reaching Out is hopeful that it can crowdsource finances as it does not have the funding at present to create the training officer position.

'If it appeals to you, we would encourage you not only to assist us financially yourself but also to tell your friends, relations, and neighbours also about this programme.'

For more information you can visit its website here.