Digital skills training for residents

Gerry Callaghan 2021-04-27

We have had a very interesting proposal from a new volunteer and some of her contacts in social media business.
Would you be interested in doing this during the summer? It would be a very high quality and useful programme and would give very interesting and marketable skills (I hate to use management speak but don’t have much alternative!)

It’s ideal for young people wishing to improve their existing social media skills.

Digital skills training for residents of the Direct Provision Centres.
Programme to be determined based on phone calls with a small sample of residents.
Skills training to be provided by Zoom in Social Media. Content Creation. Story Telling. Video Editing.
Training will be provided by local social media practitioners, videographers, and other creative talent.

Requirements:

Know how to use Instagram or TikTok or Facebook for personal use
Smartphone or ability to record video and take pictures
Available to commit to 8-10 week programme over summer 2021

If you are interested, and you would like to share your ideas on a phone call or zoom, please book in a time here: https://calendly.com/maryrose-lyons

Drop me an email at info@newhorizonathlone.org and I’ll get things going.

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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