A course with a difference!

Gerry Callaghan 2017-10-03

Want to do something really different?

Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. You will be able to animate bouncing balls, build a swarm of robots, and make virtual fireworks explode. The subjects you learn in school — math, science, computer science, and humanities — are used every day to create amazing movies at Pixar. This collaboration between Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy is sponsored by Disney.

On the Khan Academy website

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Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Remote Residency Award

Deadline: 17 May, 5.30pmWeb: www.create-ireland.ie/projectsubpage/residencies/remote-residency-award/ We are delighted to announce a new Remote Residency, in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, for collaborative socially engaged artists…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-04-27

A Big Day!

Thursday 25th January is a very big day. New Horizon and Athlone Institute of Technology are launching the Refugee OnLine Education (ROLE) program. This offers…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-01-24

English Classes in Shannon Academy

English classes begin in Shannon Academy on Wednesday February 14th. A bus will collect participants in the centre at 9.30 a.m. Please be on time. The bus will…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-02-08

Online Education Resources

The Physics Classroom is an online, free to use physics website developed primarily for beginning physics students and their teachers. http://www.physicsclassroom.com/ The Engineering Toolbox for…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-14

Online learning resources

Do you want to learn to cook, write computer code, fix your bicycle, play the guitar, or any of 1001 other subjects? Our Sample online…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-09-13

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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