Mary Nally – Third Age Foundation
Mary Nally through her organisation, the Third Age Foundation, is harnessing the power and abilities of older people to make a difference to their own communities and to society in general. The Third Age Foundation now has over 700 volunteers working on their national initiatives such as Fáilte Isteach, Senior Help Line, and the Way We Were.
Their work highlights the values of positive ageing across Ireland and opens up new possibilities for empowering older people.
Mary is tapping into an undervalued and underutilized demographic bounty by creating active contributors to society among the ageing.
In the past year alone, older people have supported their peers by taking over 13,000 calls on Senior Help Line, which now has 15 centres across the country; over 500 students attend free conversational English classes at the 23 Fáilte Isteach centres Mary has established in 9 counties; and “The Way We Were” project has now brought history to life for more that 1,000 primary school children in the 12 schools it has visited so far.
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