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

• Preparing for Coming Home
• Reverse Culture Shock

The Irish Catholic newspaper article, April 2008

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