Volunteers
Foundation Nepal’s work is supported by volunteers who help with a whole host of areas.
Shane Byrne graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Architecture. He recently gained his Part III qualification and is a member of the RIAI. He is passionate about creating low energy,
environmental and healthy forms of construction. His skills include 3D modelling, graphic design and project management.
Jamie Goggins is a lecturer in Civil Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway. One of his research interests is earthquake engineering. He has provided specialist seismic engineering advice in the design of several buildings located in regions of moderate to high seismicity, including Pakistan, Georgia, Russia and Turkey. He is a chartered engineer and has worked for engineering consultancies and contractors in Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Kevin Gray provides technical and hardware support to Foundation Nepal, and builds computers for a living.
Shane MacSweeney is managing partner with Galway law firm, MacSweeney & Company, a firm specialising primarily in the areas of employment law, corporate law, commercial disputes and debt recovery.
Shane obtained a BCL from UCC in 1991 and qualified as a solicitor in 1994. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in employment law from UCD. Before moving to his native Galway and establishing MacSweeney & Company in 2003, he was a partner with Dublin firm, Mason Hayes & Curran.
Beatrice is a self-taught event management proprietor with a wide range of experience in the event industry. She ran a small event management company for over five years in Kenya before moving to Ireland.
Beatrice met Nicky Deasy in May 2008 to discuss developing a volunteer role as an office assistant for the charity. She says that her reasons for volunteering initially were due to having a lot of time on her hands and needing to stay active. When describing this situation she said: “Time can be both my greatest asset and my worst, because I have a lot of it!”
Hearing about the plight of people living in Humla, she soon realised that she had a lot to be thankful for in life, that in fact things were not as bad as they may have appeared. This meeting not only brought a new volunteer opportunity her way but also marked a moment for her when her outlook on life began to shift somewhat, and over time her motives for volunteering began to change. Speaking about the important role that volunteering now plays in her life and what it means to her she simply says: “We are all people, if we don’t help each other then what good is life?”. Beatrice now lives in Kildare and still volunteers for the charity and hopes to continue for a long time to come.
Hello there! I am a special needs educator and I've been working with disadvantaged families for the past five years. I think that volunteering is a great way to meet new people and get involved with what's going on in the community.
Ciaran Treanor is Director of Product Development at Allfinanz and holds a B.Eng (Hons) Degree in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University.
He has over 18 years of commercial software product development experience and has held various senior management roles at Cusp Point Software, CAPE Technologies, Xelector and Broadcom Eireann Research.
