Students win gold at Young Social Innovators awards for Mica crisis project 

'A child can’t kick a ball around their house fearing it could collapse on them'

Students from Loretto Convent Letterkenny who won the Young Social Innovators 2022 gold award for their “No Place Like Home” Project on the Mica Crisis - Alice Keane, Jennifer Chudley, Rioghnach McFadden and Eve Callaghan. Pic: Clive Wasson

“It’s like a virus. Everybody knows somebody affected by it,” says Eve Callaghan, who has just completed transition year at Loreto Secondary School, Letterkenny, and who is co-captain on the ground-breaking No Place Like Home project.

The project, which aims to raise awareness of the Mica crisis and to campaign for redress on behalf of those affected by it, won gold at this year’s Young Social Innovators (YSI) Ireland Awards.