Coming Home

 

"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land"  - Emma Goldman

It is now realised that re-entry shock is more severe than the shock of meeting a new culture for the first time.  It's important then to understand that the process of readjustment has a begining, a middle and an end.

Comhlamh has recently produced the sixth issue of "The Coming Home Book" as a useful resource for returned development workers.  We also run quarterly "Coming Home Weekends" which are fully funded by Irish Aid, for returned development workers

 

The Irish Catholic newspaper article, April 2008

Read the Irish Catholic article on Comhlamh's Coming Home Weekends

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