More About the Teen Adventure

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From July 26 to July 29th 18 young people from the Athlone Accommodation unit went on a fantastic adventure.

They spent four days at the Birr Outdoor Education centre where they went canoeing, and rock climbing and gorge walking and mountain biking and pier jumping and lots more!

Everyone came home tired and muddy and soaked and had a great time. Just check out the photos!

Special thanks to:

All the great people at Birr Outdoor Education and Training Centre

Our generous funders, The Speedomick Foundation and the Lakeside Fund.

Management and Staff at Athlone Accommodation Centre

All the young people who particated in the adventure

The great New Horizon Volunteers, David, Fortunate and Pam.

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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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