Ballee Environmental Project C/o 93 Drumtara, Ballee, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. |
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Objective: | "Doctors and researchers agree that the social class a baby is born into-as measured by the family's income - will decide how long he or she lives and will govern his or her health at every stage of life from the first breath to the last. The stark conclusionis that poverty kills and in the meantime it seriously damages your health." Quoted from the Inequalities in Health - The Black Report, 1980 - Tools for change: 1995 This is our mountain...we have to find a way to climb it...and map a route for a better life.This is the Ballee Environmental Project's aim for the future. |
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History: |
November 2000 was a turning point for Ballee. The estates, had over the years been run down and looked "over" by all Goverment Agenies. But that November the Residents decided enough was enough and formed a self help group. A committee was formed and ten residents from the area took on the work load to run this project. The committee were aware that a lot of hard work and decisions had to be made to turn the Ballee Estates back to their glory. Ballee had sliped into 63rd place in the Nobel list for Northern Ireland.(A list numbering the worst wards in Northern Ireland) |
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Location: |
Ballee is a collection of seven estates (Drumtara, Shancoole, Shanlieve, Lettercreeve, Shanowen, Lanntara,Kincora)in Ballymena. Views of Slemish Mountain, where Saint Patrick tended sheep, can be obtained from most area's of Ballee. The famous Glens of Antrim are a meer twenty miles away and Belfast,the Capital of Northern Ireland, twenty seven miles from our door step. | |
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