ULSTER PROJECT DELAWARE INC
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Mission Statement
To promote reconciliation between Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants by fostering tolerance, understanding, and friendship among future leaders. To present a program that brings Northern Irish teenagers of different faiths together in a strife-free atmosphere that emphasizes acceptance of all people regardless of creed. To educate and encourage persons, particularly supporters, committed members, and American host families to appreciate their roles as peacemakers and reconcilers, and to understand the purpose of Ulster Project Delaware. To promote a spirit of community and commitment among American Ulster Project Delaware participants
About This Cause
Ulster Project Delaware was founded in 1976 by the late Charles and Josephine Robinson in conjunction with Canon Kerry Waterstone of the Church of Ireland in Tullymore, Ireland, as a program to build understanding between Northern Irish Catholic and Protestant teenagers. Each July, the project brings a group of teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16, half Catholic, half Protestant, and half girls, half boys, to the Wilmington area where they live with host teenagers and their families for four weeks. While here, the Northern Irish and American teens participate in a variety of group building, social, sightseeing, and spiritual activities that enable them to create enduring friendships and mutual understanding. When they return to Northern Ireland, the four adult leaders who have come along with the teens continue to bring them together for follow-up activities and reunions during the next year and a half. Ulster Project Delaware is the oldest, continuously running Ulster Project in the United States. Since it was founded it has brought 710 Northern Irish teens and 136 adult leaders to our area from the towns of Portadown, Banbridge, and Coleraine. In 1988, Ulster Project Delaware was awarded the Eisenhower Award by the Delaware chapter of People to People, “…in recognition of a demonstrated and significant contribution to the advancement of international understanding."