And some really good news

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-01

New Horizon is very pleased to announce funding from the St. Stephen’s Green Trust to support our online education certification program.

This will allow us to:

Pay junior certificate examination fees for adult learners in English language, Mathematics and Information Technology
Get certificates for completed MOOCs
Support and celebrate achievements

Several people are working on MOOC courses at the moment without any guarantee of certification. Now that we have got funding arranged we will do a relaunch of the project and hope to get many more involved.

Details will be worked out in December, from January it will be full steam ahead!

Look out for information on this website and at meetings in Lissywollen site.

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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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