Join us at New York Irish Center for a film screening of How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story as we are joined by founder of Project Children Denis Mulcahy.
As the culmination of Clann Health's "6 Weeks to 6K" fundraiser, which is raising funds for New York Irish Center and the Mulcahy Scholarship, New York Irish Center will screen the film about Project Children and host a wine reception.
About Project Children:
Throughout the 40 years of the program, over 23,000 young Catholic and Protestant children traveled to the US for a summer holiday respite from the everyday violence and strife of their homeland. The program continues for the young adults in the intern program. The intern program is both cross community and cross border and gives them the opportunity to work together, beginning each summer with a week working together at Habitat for Humanity in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
About Mulcahy Scholarship:
The Mulcahy Scholarship was launched in 2018 by the Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers, New York, in tribute to Denis Mulcahy and his family's commitment to Project Children, a charity that for forty years, worked untiringly to change the lives of children across Northern Ireland.
The long-term goal of the Mulcahy Scholarship is to develop the necessary funding that will facilitate the growth of this unique program, enabling many American high school students to attend these cultural summer courses in Northern and Southern Ireland. It is integral to the Mulcahy Scholarship that we preserve and promote a strong and progressive connection between Ireland and America.