Our blankets wrap people up in love : caring for Cork cancer patients in lockdown
Cork Cancer Care Centre has made the best of the lockdown circumstances it can, but its Blankets of Hope programme continues to provide comfort in trying times
Linda Goggin-James: Cork Cancer Care CEO is proud of Blankets of Hope s over 25,000 blankets made for cancer patients the world over
Mon, 25 Jan, 2021 - 14:27
Linda Goggin-James
As CEO at Cork Cancer Care Centre, I am used to the building bustling with chat. I think that this lockdown has been the hardest of them all - on everybody.
Cork Cancer Care remained open throughout this time. Our holistic therapies had to stop because they are touch therapies, but we do counselling and psychotherapy by phone and online and a huge percentage of ours are face to face. It s very hard to talk about how you are feeling on a Zoom call.
Laois groups share €1,000 from Tesco Community Fund
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Three Laois-based groups are to share funds from the Tesco Ireland Community Fund initiative.
The supermarket chain is donating €1,000 to three community groups across Laois - Embrace FARM, Laois Red Cross and Rath National School - in the first round of the 2021 Fund.
The Community Fund aims to provide financial support to groups in the local communities across the country. Tesco says the first round of this year’s Fund are going to health-related causes nationwide.
Anyone can nominate a community group or good cause. Every eight weeks three causes are chosen in every Tesco store across Ireland, sharing up to €1,000 equally.