Our ethos is about building collaborative networks, leveraging innovation, diversity, inclusion and gender equality while advocating for the policy and strategic enablers to bring about change, improve security and help address climate change.
Meitheal is the Irish or Gaelic word for a work team, gang, or party and denotes the co-operative labour system in Ireland where groups of neighbours help each other in turn with farming work, such as harvesting crops. Neighbours who give their work to others are helped in turn with their own heavy seasonal tasks. To the heart of the concept is community unity through cooperative work and mutually reciprocal support. Meitheal is the Irish expression of the ancient and universal appliance of cooperation to social need.
"Growing up in Mayo and the West taught me over the years the true meaning and spirit of Meitheal. There have been so many times in my work and personal life where a Meitheal has supported me on my journey"
— Mark Mellett
