Schedule

Gerry Callaghan 2017-08-31

The schedule for English Language classes and New Horizon information sessions has just been published.

Check it out here.

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English Language Planning Session

We are holding a planning session on Tuesday 29th August at 6.00pm in the Education Room to co-ordinate the arrangement of different levels of English…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-08-24

Online Education Review Meeting

The rescheduled online education progress meeting is now on Wednesday 16th in the education room on site. Agenda Check in – Anything interesting happened since…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-08-12

Coping with Covid-19

As we all know there are serious measures being taken nationally to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Direct provision sites are a particular…

Gerry Callaghan 2020-03-14

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

Refugee Online Learning – Restart Meeting

Wow, that was some summer, I hope you all have had a good time. However, now it’s raining and showing signs of autumn so it’s…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-08-14

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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