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Funded by Moy Valley Resources LDP Moy Valley LDP delivers the Rural Transport Initiative in the MoyValley Region on behalf of Meitheal Mhuigheo. The Moy Valley Region has a high proportion of older people in the population. Many of these live in isolated areas and have no access to transport either public or private. The Rural Transport Initiative was put in place to help provide transport for these people be they either elderly or disabled. Isolated older and disabled people experience loneliness and are not able to access local centres for shopping, socialising, medical care etc. The Rural Transport Initiative makes these facilities available to them. Minister Martin Cullen of the Department of Transport announced in April 2005 that the RTI is to be made a permanent fixture in the annual Government spending plans. Moy Valley support the following to deliver the Rural Transport Initiative:
(9am -5pm Monday - Friday)
North Mayo Volunteer Bureau
Moy Valley Resources now offer a new service to our community. The North Mayo Volunteer Bureau which is open at Cathedral Road, Ballina. One of the main objectives of our work is to promote volunteerism among our youth.
The Community Employment (CE) programme is a Government funded programme that enables community groups get valuable work done for their community and gives the long term unemployed the opportunity to get work experience and learn new skills
Schools Enterprise Programme
Moy Valley Resources IRD Schools Enterprise Programme is funded by Moy Valley Local Development Partnership and Mayo County Enterprise Board providing assistance and support to Principals and Teachers in schools throughout North Mayo and West Sligo. The programme is now in its eighth year and has so far touched over two thousand students in the Moy Valley region. The Schools Enterprise Programme is aimed at Transition Year students from secondary schools in the Moy Valley region.
Moy Valley Rural Transport Initiative
For further information contact Mary on 096-73900
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