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Edmund Rice International Limited

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Children Education Environment
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Papua New Guinea Sudan United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Republic of Tanzania Argentina Philippines South Africa Liberia Canada Slovakia Nigeria Ireland Timor-Leste Trinidad and Tobago Sierra Leone New Zealand Peru Uruguay Zambia Ghana Kenya Saint Lucia Grenada India United States of America Australia Zimbabwe Dominica
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Achieve universal primary education Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Edmund Rice International (ERI) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to working for children and young people who are marginalised because of poverty, lack of access to education, legal status, environmental degradation, or involvement in armed conflict. ERI works at the international level to promote and protect the rights of children and young people particularly in regard to education. Care for the environment is a value that is embedded in all that we do. We believe that education in all its forms offers opportunities for the promotion of a rights-based and faith-based approach to social justice and ecological advocacy. We work in partnership with other like-minded groups in the promotion of peace and justice. Our work involves engagement with the change-makers at the international level in order to bring issues and situations to the attention of the international community at the United Nations in New York and Geneva as we seek shared solutions to the issues affecting the lives of the most vulnerable people on our planet. Our main focus is the promotion of the Right to Education, the Rights of the Child and Care for the Earth. We are active in the eradication of poverty and in working with people suffering from HIV/AIDS. In many parts of the world Edmund Rice people are working with and on behalf indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Year established:	2007
Year of registration:	2007
Organizational structure:	ERI was founded jointly by two Roman Catholic religious organisations: the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers who up until the present have funded the organization. Its work is overseen by a Board of Directors which meets four times per year. Day to day operations are the responsibility of the Executive Director in Geneva and three other members of the ERI Team, two based in Geneva and one in New York. Contact persons have been nominated in each country or region in which the two Congregations have a presence whose role is to link the ERI Team with those at the 'grassroots'
Number and type of members:	Company members (subscibers to Memorndum of Association) = 7 Board members = 10 Members of the ERI Team = 4
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Work in partnership with Franciscans International
Funding structure:	Donations and grants from domestic sources
Funding structure other:	Majority of funding comes from the two founding Religious organizations the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers

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