Teen Adventure Camp 2021 – New Horizon Athlone

More About the Teen Adventure

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…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-08-02

The Forest Experience

We have started a really lovely project. Each Saturday we take children from the Athlone DP site to Portlick woods. There they can jump and…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-06-13

Extension of Immigration Permissions

26 March 2021 The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, T.D., has today announced a further temporary extension of immigration and international protection permissions to 20…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-03-30

Student Support Scheme

Student Support Scheme for people in the International Protection System (asylum seekers) 2021 The Government has announced the Students Support Scheme for International Protection Applicants. …

Gerry Callaghan 2021-09-03

Achievement awards open to everyone under 25

Above, President Michael D. Higgins presenting Bronze Gaisce awards to young people at the Mosney Direct Provision site in Co Meath. Gaisce – The President’s…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-21

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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