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Our Organisation
Annual Report 2006
Overview of the Year
2006 was an important year for
the wider Irish development community. In
September the IMRS welcomed the publication of
the Government’s White Paper on Irish Aid. In
particular we value the clear sense of vision
and direction it provides for the contribution
Ireland can make in responding to the enormous
and urgent challenges of securing human dignity
for billions of people around the world. Through
the efforts of our members, our missionaries in
the field, we are happy to report, that the
financial support of Irish Aid and the wider
Irish public continues to be used on a daily
basis to open the door to a better future for
millions of people throughout the world. As
missionaries we were also glad to see
recognition in the White Paper of the pioneering
role which missionaries have had in development
co-operation. We welcome this as part of an
increasing appreciation within the development
world for the distinctive and specific
contribution which faith based organisations
make in the development arena.
IMRS strives to be an organisation that is of
service to our members. With the help of a
dedicated and efficient staff, with the
commitment of the Board members and the liaison
officers and with the interest and concern of
all our members here at home, we strive to offer
support and assistance to our missionaries in
the field.
During 2006 our missionaries continued to
dedicate themselves with great creativity and
resourcefulness to translating our precious
human yearning for a better world into the
multitude of specific actions and steps which
real development requires. We pray God’s
blessing on them and on the people they serve.
In 2007 we will celebrate the fortieth
anniversary of Paul VI’s Encyclical,
Populorum Progressio, On the Development of
Peoples. As we continue to work together with
our many partners I am sure that we will
continue to be inspired by our shared Christian
conviction recalled in that document that
“God intended the earth and all that it
contains for the use of every human being and
people” (Populorum Progressio, 22)
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Annual Report 2004
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