Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, LLM Students complete the Calcutta Run 2012

This year a team of Trinity College Dublin LL.M. students, Tommy Timlin, Claire O'Loughlin, Beatrice Vance, Michael Dyulgerov, Ruth Donnellan, Senan Kemp and Remi Ribas ran the annual Calcultta Run in aid of The Peter McVerry Trust and Goal.

The Peter McVerry Trust provides hostels, care and assistance for homeless and deprived children and young adults in Dublin. Proceeds from the Calcutta Run have assisted them with one of their largest projects to date, the purchase, refurbishment and staffing of a house outside Dublin for use as a detox centre. It is next to impossible for addicts to come off drugs in an inner-city hostel and they cannot cater for drug users in their other hostels. The staff includes a registered nurse, a psychologist, a counselor and a number of project workers. Unfortunately, this project does not receive any government funding and it is reliant almost exclusively on fundraising projects such as the Calcutta Run.

GOAL has been actively helping the poorest of the poor in the third world for 35 years. In Calcutta, GOAL quite literally takes children off the streets and gives them food, care, education and most importantly, a sense of love and worth. GOAL is supporting the provision of basic education and healthcare services to a number of desperately poor, semi-permanent squatter communities that live alongside the railway tracks on the fringes of Calcutta.