Nhlanhla Baron Masuku

Gerry Callaghan 2019-12-18

I’m very sorry to have to announce the death of Nhlanhla Baron Masuku on Sunday 15th December.

Baron was from Zimbabwe and had been living in Athlone since early 2018.

He was a kind and gentle man that everyone liked. He had recently received his leave-to-remain papers and was working on family unification.

He will be deeply missed by his friends in the asylum-seeking community, New Horizon volunteers and his tutors and classmates in Athlone Institute of Technology.

On behalf of all New Horizon volunteers I’d like to offer our sympathies to his family and friends.

Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.

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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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