Galway Bay fm newsroom - Ballinasloe is one of the areas set be benefit from a new €2 million fund to support 14 communities throughout the country experiencing social exclusion and disadvantage.
The ‘Empowering Communities Programme’ aims to empower local communities to craft their own response to area-based poverty, social exclusion, and the resulting consequences.
The funding aims to facilitate and support the employment of a community engagement worker in Ballinasloe to work with people experiencing disadvantage.
It follows an application from Galway Rural Development Company to use a community development approach to address social exclusion, as well as the impacts of poverty and disadvantage.
CEO of Galway Rural Development Steve Dolan said this is both a timely and necessary intervention.
He spoke to our reporter Antoinette Giblin:
