15 Years of Team Hope!

15 Years of Team Hope!

We’re celebrating 15 years of Team Hope! Join in the celebrations with a Team Hope Tea Party!

Team Hopes Work in Communities

Read all about the work Team Hope is doing in communities all year round

Host a Tea Party

Pour a cup of hope and help us celebrate 15 years of Team Hope!

15 Years of Hope – Be Part of What Comes Next

Become a monthly donor and help reach even more children all year round.

Helping vulnerable children overseas

Team Hope is an Irish, Christian and child-focused international development organisation. Founded in 2010, we work in Africa and Eastern Europe to help children affected by poverty or marginalisation.

Changing Communities

Our Team dreams big. We work in communities in 14 countries across Africa and Eastern Europe. By working to empower communities and help children, we give roots to societies to grow, develop and flourish.

How can my school help?

School involvement is very important to us as we truly believe that by engaging children and students, developing their awareness and giving them opportunities to act, they will grow to be compassionate and giving. From pre-school to secondary school, there are lots of ways for your class to get involved.

Confirming Hope

For children doing their confirmation, this program helps students explore how they can make a difference both locally and globally.

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Christmas Shoebox Appeal

Every child deserves to feel the magic of Christmas with our Christmas Shoebox Appeal.

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Host Your Tea Party

Hosting a tea party is a fantastic way to bring your school community together and wrap up the term with something everyone can enjoy.

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Christmas Shoebox Appeal

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Get the details

Get ready for the Christmas Shoebox Appeal by finding out all about it here.

How to fill a Christmas Shoebox

Follow our simple steps to filling your shoebox and dropping it off.

Thank You!

“Thank You! Your Christmas Shoeboxes have gone to children 13 countries across Africa and Eastern Europe! See where your Christmas Shoeboxes went”
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Read the stories

Read the stories of children who have received Christmas Shoeboxes 

Recent news

Beyond the Box: The Ripple Effect of Hope in Abigail’s Village

At Team Hope, we believe in going beyond the box. A Christmas Shoebox is often the first connection. But long after the wrapping paper is gone, your support helps build long-term solutions that empower families like Abigail’s to break the cycle of poverty for good. 
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Espérance’s Chance at Hope 

By being part of this project Espérance is now able to offer her children a more healthy, safe and secure life and an education that will give them more opportunities to become parents who can do the same and more for their own children. 
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What a difference 3 hours makes 

This time last year women and girls in Nzewani community spent an average of 3 hours per day collecting water for their families, for their crops and for their livestock.  For some it was double that time.  There were no days off. Now they have both clean water and time. Time to grow crops, time to make an income, time to live.
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Giving solace, smiles … and pineapples. 

April 7th 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1994 Rwandan genocide when almost 1 million people were killed in 100 days. One way in which people are being helped to rebuild their lives is by growing pineapples! As a result, the children in these households are growing up in an environment that is more holistically healthy in terms of their mental, emotional, intellectual and physical growth.
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Born Free

HIV is one of the biggest challenges faced by more than one million pregnant women globally each year and our story shows how one women in Eswatini overcame this challenge and is now helping other women to do the same. This is a story of hope.
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Water is Flowing!

In South East Kenya Team Hope has a new project that is helping to get safe running water to communities. On December 12nd 2023, in Nzewani Community, water stared flowing freely for the first time from 200 meters underground! The new borehole was celebrated as the best Christmas present ever for the 1,800 + children living in this community – a gift that will keep on giving for many years to come.
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Become a Retail Partner with Team Hope

JOIN TEAM HOPE AS A RETAIL PARTNER AND BE PART OF IRELAND’S BIGGEST GIFT-GIVING CAMPAIGN—OUR CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX APPEAL!
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2024 Christmas Shoebox Appeal: THANK YOU!

In 2024, with your help, we sent an incredible 171,675 Christmas Shoebox gifts to children across 13 countries in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Here you can read the stories from some of the children, see how much your Christmas Shoebox gift really meant to them and how it brought joy, happiness and hope to their lives.
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