BEN RYAN DEPARTS TODAY FOR A US HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNSHIP THOUGH PROJECT CHILDREN LEGACY PROGRAMME

By Veronica Corr

Ben Ryan from Emyvale jets off to the USA today, Thursday on the working holiday of a lifetime. The 21-year-old college student won an internship with Habitat for Humanity, through Project Children’s legacy project. He found out about the internship through Monaghan native Catherine Flood, who is a volunteer with Project Children in New York. After going through the application process, Ben was delighted to have been accepted for the eight week programme.

When asked if he was excited about the trip, he exclaimed: “I cannot wait!” The last time the Project Children entourage rolled into town, in preparation for the archive’s move to the Monaghan Peace Campus incorporating Monaghan County Museum, Ben was delighted to have met Denis Mulcahy, Co-founder of Project Children and Catherine Flood at the CombiLift screening of How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story — which is an enthralling watch.

Ben was incredibly impressed by Denis, a former NYPD bomb disposal specialist and his social conscience that was the catalyst behind Project Children fifty years ago. Denis brought children from war-torn Northern Ireland from both sides of the divide and showed them the humanity in each other. “When Catherine told me the history of Project Children, when I was accepted for the…