2020 Willow Wheelers Charity Cycle Update
Dear Willow Wheelers, We are absolutely delighted to see so many of you have been out arranging your own 2020 Willow Wheelers Charity Cycles. In recent weeks, Christy has received an exceptional number of...
Category: Mission Trips
Mission Trips
Willow Wheelers Kenyan Mission Trip 2020
By Áine O Donoghue Project visits In February 2020, 43 members of the Willow Wheelers cycling club including 15 students travelled to Kenya. For the past 30 years the Willow Wheelers have made an...
Brazil 2019
During the February mid-term break a group of 32 Willow Wheelers including 12 students traveled to São Paulo, Brazil on the annual Mission Trip. There, the group visited a number of projects associated with...
Ethiopia Trip 2018
For those of us around in the Eighties, Ethiopia evokes memories of one of the biggest humanitarian relief efforts the world has ever seen. In 1984 Michael Buerk, a BBC correspondent, brought shocking scenes of...
Kenya May 2017: Pokot Update
Fr. David Conway is a Spiritan Father who has worked in the East Pokot, Kenya, for many years and has helped develop many projects in the region with the support of the willow Wheelers. ...
Kenya 2017
In February 2017, a group of thirty nine people including fifteen students travelled to Kenya on the annual Willow Wheeler Mission Trip. A change of destination Planning a mission trip is no easy task...
South Sudan Project
The Willow Wheelers gave support for development work in Thon-Aduel, Rumbek Diocese, South Sudan. Fr. Boniface Muema Isenge CSSp provided an update to Christy McCDaid in 2016 in appreciation of the contributions in support...
The Gambia 2016
Willow Wheelers’ trip to The Gambia – February 2016 Special significance Since Willow Wheelers’ first ever overseas mission venture was to The Gambia in 1996, this year’s return trip had special significance. The...
Tanzania 2015
In 2015, the Willow Wheelers went to Tanzania on their annual mission trip. Before travelling the group had been well prepared by the founder of the Wheelers, Christy Mc Daid. Meetings were held to...
Kenya 2014
In February 2014, I had the privilege of accompanying the Willow Wheelers on their mission trip to Kenya. Since its beginning 25 years ago, the Willow Wheelers have raised considerable amounts of money to...
