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✨VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT✨ on Katie, a volunteer at Hygiene Hub Meath for over a year.

She has made a great impact on growing the Meath Hub and sharing Hygiene Hub’s purpose and story with the public.

Thank you for everything you do Katie! 💚🩵

If you want to follow in Katie’s footsteps and make a difference in your community and the lives of others, click the link in our bio to sign up today!

#hygienehub #hygienehubmeath #spreadkindness

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Be so proud of this version of you @vhi_ie 💜

Little throwback to last Sunday’s Dublin mini marathon where 30,000 women ran to support a great cause.

25 women ran the marathon as team Focus Ireland to raise money to help end child homelessness. We are all so proud of you and grateful for your support.

Thank you for putting your heart and soul into it 🫂

See you next year!

#FocusIreland #EndChildHomelessness #DublinMiniMarathon #VHIWMM

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30,000 women took to the Dublin streets last Sunday to run the @vhi_ie mini marathon 💜

25 of those women, ran as team Focus Ireland, raising money to help end child homelessness. To each and every one of you: thank you 💛

Here are just some of the lovely women who ran with us last Sunday - smiles all round!

We can’t wait for next year already!

#FocusIreland #EndChildHomelessness #DublinMiniMarathon #VHIWMM

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2025 was jam packed ✨
Love yous all 🩵🦋

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Morning after the ball..

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Cinderella 2025 over and out 💔 what a blast @smmsnavan

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“I’m only 21 and I went through something that no one could ever imagine they would go through.”

Katie and her family have been homeless since January 2024. Earlier this year, Katie was a contestant of Miss Ireland and chose to support Focus Ireland as one of her chosen charities for the “Beauty with a Purpose” portion of the competition.

Since then she has been using her platform and voice to speak on the issue that she feels strongly about and has a personal connection to: homelessness.

“I thought it would be a good idea to use my own experience to talk about breaking the stigma of homelessness, because people think you have to be a certain type of person to be homeless, when that is definitely not the case.”

Katie has spoken on her family’s experience of homelessness during the competition and on her own social media, speaking on the emotional trauma for them, including her 9 year old niece.

“It was terrifying to talk about. I was scared that people would have a different perception of me. But then I realised that being homeless isn’t who I am, it’s just what I went through.”

Recounting the experience of being evicted from her childhood home after 12 years of renting, Katie spoke about the impact on herself and her family, “We only had a week to leave, so we had a week to pack up 12 years of our life into boxes.”

The family were placed in emergency accommodation at a bed and breakfast, sharing 2 rooms between the 5 of them, “I consider myself one of the lucky ones, not many people are so lucky with the situation they get put into... but obviously it was still very hard.”

“Seeing my other family members going through it as well, it was so difficult.”

Katie is currently studying to become a teacher and working at her college placement as part of that training.

Although herself and her parents are still waiting to find a permanent living situation - now staying with her sister and niece - Katie is passionate about continuing to advocate for others experiencing homelessness and using her voice to encourage Government to act.

“If you don’t talk about something, no one knows it’s going on.”

#FocusAt40 #40Faces #FocusIreland #NoChildWithoutAHome

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21 but make it classy - surrounded by the best 🥂🖤🤍

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Happy First Communion to our dearest Zara. 👼🏻😇

#capcut #tiktok #ireland #dresses #white #fyp

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