SaorEd Online Education Platform

Gerry Callaghan 2022-01-14

Doras, Dignity Partnership, and New Horizon invite you to attend the online launch of SaorEd, a new platform that provides free access to education and training courses for people from refugee and migrant backgrounds in Ireland.

Initial SaorEd offerings will include English language courses, information technology (IT) skills, healthcare, and career preparation courses. The courses will be mostly in English, with some in Arabic.

SaorEd is built on the Kiron online learning platform which has been designed specifically for refugees and underserved communities. The initiative is a collaborative venture by Doras, Dignity Partnership, and New Horizon.

Speakers at the launch event will include Tikambechi Mwalughali who is currently living in Direct Provision, Elisa Pellegrino of Kiron, and Enda O’Neill, Head of UNHCR Ireland.

Please join us online on an important day for underserved communities in Ireland. Fri, January 14, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT

Book your place on: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/saored-online-learning-platform-launch-tickets-239893657387

New Horizon would like to acknowledge the generous support that we have received for this project from the Solas Mitigating against Educational Disadvantage Fund and Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board.

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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