Don’t forget to collect your Easter Eggs!

Gerry Callaghan 2021-03-30

Don’t forget to drop into the shop to collect easter eggs!

With best wishes from all the New Horizon gang!

Don’t forget the AGM!

New Horizon annual general meeting is on next Tuesday 7th at 7pm in room D10 in Athlone Institute of Technology. Please attend, it’s your opportunity…

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Sanctuary Runners coming to the Midlands!!

Annemarie Sheehan from Sanctuary Runners Ireland is travelling from Cork to midlands this evening to launch Sanctuary Runners in Athlone tomorrow morning at the Park…

Gerry Callaghan 2023-06-30

ROLE 2 Launch

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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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

Circus Week!

New Horizon in collaboration with Gateway Youth Project and Galway Community Circus are hosting a 4 day Circus Skills Workshop from Tuesday 1st – Friday…

Gerry Callaghan 2023-07-28

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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