During the month of June 2020, To Children With Love held a series of Live Chats to raise funds for the charity when our shops closed down during the COVID-19 lockdown. Five live Zoom chats featured TV presenter Mary Kennedy in conversation with former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese and our Founder, Debbie Deegan, in…
‘They were silent, all with shaved heads – it blew me away as an ordinary Mammy’ – Charity queen Debbie Deegan talks changing lives. Charity queen Debbie Deegan’s Tedx talk went live this week. She talks to Liadan Hynes about resilience, fear and changing lives. ‘I was in the supermarket when I got a phone…
Cut Through The Noise Debbie Deegan TEDx TALK ‘Mrs Deegan, President Putin will be seated to your right’ Debbie Deegan refused to accept no for an answer and it took her from her kitchen table to dinner with President Putin in the Kremlin. Over the past 20 years, her search for one child lead to…
On January 11, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s favourite Dub Debbie Deegan won’t be flying to Russia for once. The founder of the Irish Charity, To Children With Love (formerly known as To Russia with Love) is jetting to England to speak at the TEDx ‘Cut Through The Noise’ event in London. Will her bessie mate jet…
A Dublin woman who has worked tirelessly for 20 years to help Russian orphans was today awarded one of the nation’s highest honours. President Vladimir Putin presented To Children With Love founder Debbie Deegan with the Order of Friendship award at a special ceremony in the Kremlin. The medal, offered to foreign citizens for outstanding…
Debbie Deegan was shocked at the conditions of a Russian orphanage she visited in 1998. Twenty years after setting up the charity, To Children With Love, she invites Mary Kennedy to join her on a trip to Russia to meet some of the children she rescued. When you walk into a pizzeria to meet young…
The 2014 Newstalk WMB Female Social Entrepreneur Award recipient is Debbie Deegan, the big heart behind children’s charity To Russia With Love. The Dubliner’s journey started in 1998 when she began the process of adopting a little girl from a rundown western Russia orphanage. Although Debbie and her husband were not qualified to adopt that…
Debbie Deegan, Founder of the To Russia With Love charity, was winner of Newstalk’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Women Mean Business Awards 2014 in The Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin.
ANYA director Damien O’Connor and To Russia With Love founder Debbie Deegan celebrated the online launch of ANYA on April 29th 2014. The short animation is by Brown Bag Films and received an amazing response from viewers. WATCH ANYA
For the past 15 years, Debbie Deegan’s charity, To Russia With Love, has been caring for children in Hortolova orphanage. Now the children’s extraordinary stories have been committed to film. Emily Hourican attended its premiere. It’s certainly the strangest movie premiere I’ve been to. The location, a low building showing signs of surviving a rough…
