Raise and Give Week (RAG Week) took place in Dundalk Institute of Technology from the 28th February to the 4th March. The main purpose of RAG Week is to raise money for charity. The main charity for this years RAG Week was SoSad in Dundalk. Every year the students union along with the majority of students raise thousands for different charities. Last years rag week raised €8,000 for 2 charities:
- Friends of Sruthan House, Dundalk- who received €5,000 of the money raised
- The Bubble Gum Club in Dun Laoghaire- who received €3,000 of the money raised
The link below shows a newspaper article that was published in the Dundalk Democrat about RAG Week 2011:
This just goes to show that RAG Week, which takes place in the majority of colleges and universities around Ireland, is not all about students getting drunk all week, it is all for a good cause.
This years RAG week was a huge success, and I will like to say well done to David and James in the students union. They offered a fun-filled week for us students to enjoy. And by the responses I am hearing from everyone, it was one of the best RAG Week by far. Below is a video that was produced to promote RAG Week 2011, and in my opinion it promotes it really well.
Over the years RAG Weeks across the country have been given a bad reputation due to certain students behavior. However I feel that this can balanced out by the true meaning of the week which is to raise money for charity.
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