To all our Friends – Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak!

Eid al-Adha is celebrated on 1st September this year. New Horizon would like to wish Eid Mubarak to everybody!

Gerry Callaghan 2017-09-01

AIT wins Institute of the Year Award

Congratulations to our friends in Athlone Institute of Technology on an amazing achievement. AIT management, staff and students have been good friends and allies of…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-10-09

Nhlanhla Baron Masuku

I’m very sorry to have to announce the death of Nhlanhla Baron Masuku on Sunday 15th December. Baron was from Zimbabwe and had been living…

Gerry Callaghan 2019-12-18

Remembering Catherine

I’m very sad to report the death of Catherine Murphy. Catherine was one of the first volunteers with New Horizon when the Direct Provision site…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-01-09

AIT is first College of Sanctuary in Ireland

Our friends in AIT have done it again! Athlone IT, a midland college with global reputation and international students from over 60 countries, including Mid…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-11-20

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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