Eid Mubarak!

Gerry Callaghan 2017-09-01

Eid al-Adha is celebrated on 1st September this year.

New Horizon would like to wish Eid Mubarak to everybody!

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To all our Friends – Eid Mubarak

Gerry Callaghan 2020-05-24

Eid Mubarak

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful Eid. .مع كل الحب، البركات، والسلام في هذا اليوم المجيد. عيد فطر سعيد

Gerry Callaghan 2021-05-11

Walking with Poles and Men on the Move

Two great new fitness opportunities from Westmeath Sports Partnership and Athlone Regional Sports centre. Walking with Poles Outdoor Programme Walking with poles is a great…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-09-03

Free Job Coaching

EPIC is a pre-employment programme for migrants based in Dublin. They are currently looking for potential participants nationwide who are asylum seekers and refugees for…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-09-03

Don’t forget the AGM!

New Horizon annual general meeting is on next Tuesday 7th at 7pm in room D10 in Athlone Institute of Technology. Please attend, it’s your opportunity…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-11-02

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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