A group of Galway healthcare professionals are hosting a human rights concert at the Town Hall Theatre in December to raise funds and promote awareness of their ongoing projects in the southern African country of Zambia.
i4Life is a non-profit Irish organisation that specialises in immunisation, nutrition and primary healthcare.
Dr Maura Moran is one of a group of volunteer health professionals who came together in 2009 to organise immunisation programmes and child health clinics for under fives in the poorer countries of the world and to provide support to existing charities in emergency situations.
Currently their work is focused in Zambia where they provide nutrition clinics and primary healthcare services to an urban township called Linda Compound which is based on the outskirts of Lusaka and has a population of approximately 80,000.
"We are a group of like-minded health professionals with a similar interest in human rights. In 2011 we were invited to come to Zambia by the Neri clinic.
"These people are a combination of urban migrants, internally displaced people, some refugees, so it's a very marginalised community, very vulnerable community," said Maura Moran.
Dr Moran said i4Life facilitates international health professionals coming from Ireland and from Europe as well as medical students and young professionals who gain a lot from learning from their Zambian colleagues.
"This model of mutual transfer of knowledge is a model in equality and diversity and in cultural sensitivity or humility," she said.
The i4Life concert will take place on Sunday 3 December. It will feature a variety of performances by Bel Canto, Aidan Tierney, The Galway Baytones, Hession School of Dance, Orlaith Keane, Headford Music Works, Geraldine Farrell and Everyone's Voice Movement Group.
