ROLE 2 Launch

Gerry Callaghan 2018-05-08

Don’t forget the signup to the Refugee Online Learning (ROLE) programme

Wednesday 9th at 6 pm in the education room

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The ROLE Online Education Gateway is Open!

Refugee OnLine Education (ROLE) is in business! Today we launch in Athlone Institute of Technology. The ROLE education gateway is now open. Welcome to…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-01-25

ROLE for 2018-2019

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Gerry Callaghan 2018-08-31

Refugee Online Learning (ROLE) Restarts on Thursday!

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Gerry Callaghan 2018-09-17

Refugee Online Learning – Restart Meeting

Wow, that was some summer, I hope you all have had a good time. However, now it’s raining and showing signs of autumn so it’s…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-08-14

Online Learning Relaunch

We have now worked out a lot of the problems and are ready to start the online education programme Meeting Wed 10th Jan. 12:00 in…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-01-09

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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