Another Refugee Online Education Course

Gerry Callaghan 2018-04-20

We are now finishing the initial run of the ROLE course and the general opinion is that it has been very successful. Nine people are continuing advanced online courses.

There have been a lot of requests to run a second one, this time on site. This would be particularly useful for people who, for family reasons, can’t get away to AIT for a full day.

We are working hard to get our computer lab in-a-box up and running. When we get this done, hopefully week ending 27th, we will be able to start operations on site.

We will have a meeting about it during next week, keep an eye out for notices on the noticeboards.

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FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee

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