The Foundation announced a one year International Grant Programme in September 2008, with a closing date of 31st October 2008. The International Grant Programme is currently closed to applications.  Below are the list of 11 successful applications in 2008.

Africare £15,000 The Africare medical facility in Uganda is the main provider for non-surgical support for the country and surrounding areas.  They use manipulation and casts to re-shape limbs in children.  The grant will allow the organisation to build an extension to give them a sealed clean room for carrying out procedures.

Christian Aid Ireland £10,975 This grant will go towards the cost of building a new training centre for girls who live in the slums of Luanda, Angola.  The new centre will train the girls in the afternoon after their school day finishes.  They will learn real skills for work as well as building their self-esteem.  The centres will also provide vital information to the girls and their families on HIV.

Concern Worldwide  £10,000 The grant is towards the setting up of a new womens empowerment centre in Afghanistan.  The centres have a community and social approach with a library and a gym to support the personal development of the women in District 16, a huge area with no other facilities for women.

Depaul Trust NI  £5,000  The Depaul Trust provides support to street children in the Ukraine and also provides support and training to staff in the state run care system and orphanages on basic good practice and what is acceptable practice within orphanages.  The grant will be used to provide medicine and food for street children. 

Habitat for Humanity Northern Ireland  £10,000  The grant will go towards the home building project for orphans and other vulnerable children in Mozambique.  This is part of a huge project to support the orphans in Mozambique who make up approximately 8% of the population mainly due to their parents dying from AIDS.

Oxfam Ireland  £13,090 The grant will be used to build grain stores in North East Uganda.  The stores will allow local women from the pastoralist communities to store and sell their grain and thus provide a living for their families.  Otherwise, women have to sell all their grain at harvest time thereby not neccessarily gaining the best price for it.

Public Achievement £11,868 The grant will allow Bush Radio in Cape Town to train young people as civic youth workers and to allow them to run projects with young people looking at violence in their lives and how this can be changed.  The project will work with around 30 groups of children and young people.   

Romanian Partnership Committee £5,000 This organisation provides support to young people coming out of renowned care system in Romania.  The grant will go towards basics such as food, rent, medical support and transport for these young people who have no state support.

Tools for Solidarity £4,458 Towards the small scale tailoring enterprises support programme in the Lake zone area of Tanzania.  The grant will help towards the local production of treadles for the sewing machines and training for local people on usage and repair of these sewing machines. 

War on Want £10,000 The grant is towards the better alternatives for living project in North East Uganda. The project aims to develop the capacity of local groups and support them to develop sustainable farming projects and businesses.

Zomba Action Project  £5,000 The grant will allow up to 72 families in Zomba to have irrigated land with which to grow crops, through the installation of pumps in their village.  The local people will also be given training on how to gain a longer term better yield from their crops.