CAMA Community Asset Management Agency Established

Published: Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Click here to view the proclamation in PDF format.

The Community Development Alliance has set up a new agency to protect the most vulnerable people in Ireland. CAMA aims to protect the Community Development Projects that are being closed down at a time when their services are most needed. Community Development Projects give a voice to those people and communities who consistently experience poverty; we empower people to set up services, policies and programmes aimed at reducing poverty and inequality. CAMA aims to articulate and protect those voices.

The Board of CAMA and the Community Development Alliance call for the retention of the CDP Programme, with all of it's values and ethos protected, including the bottom up approach, and the retention of all community assets that were sought for and fought for in the name of those people and communities who are poor, vulnerable and left out on the margins.

We urge the Government to listen to us and reverse the decision to close projects down. It will only hurt the young, the old, the poor, the disabled, the excluded and marginalised - and it will cost the state more in the end.

The first public event hosted by CAMA will take place at 11am on Friday November 6th at a press conference. The venue is a public one, outside of the GPO, on the streets, in solidarity with those communities and CDPs who will soon lose their projects and community premises and services. CAMA will announce it's vision for an alternative society.

Speakers will include those who experience poverty and disability, voluntary boards of management and board members of CAMA. If you believe in equality and a fair share for the poor then please come and hear us.

For further information contact Cathleen O'Neill, 087 - 7506188, Rita Fagan, 087 6319004, Noreen Byrne 087 6191987.