Trócaire to pull out of four countries

WITH €7 million cuts in state funds and a €3m cut in public funding this year, aid agency Trócaire has been forced to pull out of four countries this year and to seek 27 redundancies in its Irish operations.

And within the next 18 months it will pull out of a further five countries because it can no longer afford to fund programmes.

The nine countries from which it is withdrawing are Zambia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Peru, Brazil, Tanzania, Haiti, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.