End Direct Provision Campaign

Gerry Callaghan 2020-06-10

Myself and my friend living in DP have developed an idea for a video project. We are asking people to send us clips of themselves holding up a sign with ‘End Direct Provision’ with #blacklivesmatter as part of this project.

People in DP can’t leave their room to get out and protest and lots of people are too high risk to be going out in groups so we figured this is the next best thing.

People in DP are very, very low at the moment since they are essentially imprisoned to their rooms. So hopefully this video of support can go someway in helping to lift their spirits a bit.

Videos can be sent to evienevin87@yahoo.ie

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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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