UPD Founded in 1976

Charles and Josephine Robinson, working with Canon Kerry Waterstone of the Church of Ireland in Tulleymore, founded Ulster Project Delaware in 1976. The program was conceived as a way to build understanding and trust between Northern Irish Catholic and Protestant teenagers between the ages of 14-16.

Ulster Project Delaware is the oldest, continuously running Ulster Project in the United States. Since its start in 1976 it will have brought 576 Northern Irish teens and some 128 adult leaders to the northern Delaware area from the towns of Portadown, Banbridge and Coleraine.

In 1988 UPD 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."

The idea of the Ulster Project has now spread to 25 other communities in 13 other states in the United States.