CHARITY MATCH - DO NOT MISS IT!
The newly crowned All-Ireland senior football champions, Dublin, will play reigning county champions, Kilmacud Crokes, in a charity challenge in Parnell Park (7.45) on this Wednesday evening 21st September. The admission is €10 with the entire proceeds divided between two charities that the Dublin team is involved with Crosscare and Temple Street Children’s Hospital.
CROSSCARE
We at Crosscare (formerly known as the Catholic Social Service Conference CSSC) have been responding to the needs of people on the margins of society since 1941. Currently we employ close to 170 staff with an annual expenditure running towards 11 million euro. Our range of programmes is diverse and we reach into areas of high need and deliver services with a commitment and passion that is unique to our organisation.
Ethos and Values
Crosscare’s ethos is based on the principle that every person is created in the image and likeness of God. This places responsibility on us in Crosscare to work to the highest possible standards while treating every person who uses our services and who works for and with us, with the utmost respect, courtesy and love.
Deriving from this principle we have four core values against which we will proof all of our activities and actions.
Respect
Every person regardless of their lifestyle, race, nationality, gender, religion, beliefs, values or sexual orientation is unique; has intrinsic worth; and is entitled to dignity, respect, well being and self-fulfilment.
Human Rights
It is our responsibility to be aware of the rights that those who avail of our services are entitled to, and that hand in hand, with the delivery of our services, we advocate on their behalf when their rights and entitlements are being denied them.
Integrity
We will honour the trust that is placed in us, by conducting ourselves with integrity in all of our activities and actions. We hold ourselves accountable to be open, honest, genuine and reliable at all times; creating a culture of fairness and integrity that we can be proud of.
Excellence
To live out our ethos is to strive for excellence in everything we do. The people who avail of our services, along those of us who deliver them, are equal partners in pursuing excellence in all of our relationships and endeavours.
TEMPLE STREET CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Temple Street is the first port of call for tens of thousands of children every year suffering from every kind of illness and injury imaginable. Our aim is to help sick children by making their stay in hospital less distressing for them and their families, by funding the purchase of medical equipment, developing new services, funding research and developing new treatment facilities.
However, the treatment we provide here at Temple Street is not limited to just the first-class medical care that we deliver. For many children suffering from long-term and life-threatening diseases and illnesses Temple Street is a second home.
Some children are living their childhoods here and we understand that we are privileged to be a part of their young lives. That’s why we ensure that their hospital experience is as positive, optimistic and loving as it can be. We not only act as their medical team; we act as their second family, their support system, their teachers, their playmates and their friends. These children deserve so much; the best possible medical care, attention, treatment and love, and our role is to fulfil that.
We’re not just a Hospital. For many families we’re a home away from home and so we treat the children of Temple Street as if they were our own. Temple Street children are special and that’s why the Hospital must continue to be as extraordinary as the children that come here.