Walking back to happiness!

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-02

Our friend Vuyani Samuel Booysen ( Sam ) at the AIT college of sanctuary launch on Thursday.

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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

College of Sanctuary Launch

We had a great day at the College of Sanctuary launch in Athlone Institute of Technology yesterday. It was a day to meet old and…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-01

Sanctuary Runners coming to the Midlands!!

Annemarie Sheehan from Sanctuary Runners Ireland is travelling from Cork to midlands this evening to launch Sanctuary Runners in Athlone tomorrow morning at the Park…

Gerry Callaghan 2023-06-30

College of Sanctuary Award

President of AIT, Professor Ciarán Ó Catháin on receipt of the award said, “Today is a proud day for AIT as it becomes the first…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-02

Seasons Greetings and Thank You

I’d like to wish seasons greetings and a happy new year to all New Horizon friends; volunteers, supporters, donors and residents. Thank you for all…

Gerry Callaghan 2020-12-24

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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