Cooking Classes

Gerry Callaghan 2022-05-22

We have been running cookery classes in St Kieran’s community centre for the past few weeks. The results look great!

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Walking with Poles and Men on the Move

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Gerry Callaghan 2021-09-03

English Classes in Shannon Academy

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Gerry Callaghan 2018-02-08

More About the Teen Adventure

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Gerry Callaghan 2021-08-02

New Horizon in 2019

Dear friends, I had intended writing before Christmas to say a very sincere thanks for all the work done over the year. However the bereavement on…

Gerry Callaghan 2019-12-29

The Forest Experience

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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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