This booklet is the result of a pilot project between Our Lady of Mercy Waterford
Secondary School and the Waterford Sustainable Living Initiative (SLí) and is the brain
child of Aoife Byrne and driven by Helen McTighe, both teachers at the school.
The goals of this Project are to:
Provide students an opportunity to share stories from their families, their culture or their
own creativity
Demonstrate that many of the challenges that face us today have always been with us
and as a world community we have always been resilient
Establish a link between our current solutions, as seen in the Sustainable Development
Goals, and those of our forebearers
We hope to expand this Project in the coming year to include more students, stories and
schools.
Thank you to the students at Our Lady of Mercy Waterford and Ms. McTighe for inviting
SLí to be a part of this work.
Jen & Sarah
SLí