50 years on, Trócaire is still tackling the toughest situations on Earth 

Somalia is the latest front in the Irish aid organisation’s decades-old war on hunger, writes Jack White

Paul Healy, Country Director for Somalia. Picture: Joy Obuya/Trócaire.

Since 1973, Trócaire boxes have been a staple in Irish households, businesses, schools and churches, a sign of lent but also a call for help for those suffering abroad.

In addition to revisiting some of its best-remembered boxes for its 50th anniversary, Trócaire launched this year’s appeal which will support almost eight million people on the brink of starvation in Somalia.