Cork City of Sanctuary worked very hard for over a year and a half to create an action plan. We are delighted to announce that this action plan was launched on March 29th in the Millenium Hall of Cork’s City Hall. City Hall was packed with stakeholders from far and near. David Stanton, the Minister […]
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City of Sanctuary Cork hosted a network gathering on March 29th in Cork City Council, before launching its Strategic Plan of Actions later in the evening. Over 40 delegates from across the island, as far as Belfast came to the gathering before the launch, and had inspiring exchange about how the welcome can happen on
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[embeddoc url=”https://cdn-e2wra3va3xhgzx.cityofsanctuary.org/uploads/sites/89/2019/05/Sanctuary-In-Politics-Provisional-Schedule-Galway.pdf” download=”all”] You can also find out more about how to run a Sanctuary in Politics Course with our handbook. This is only a guideline, local groups should design their own courses bases on local needs and resources.
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Wavelength, a new nationwide integration project recently launched by Gaisce, Ireland’s President Award is inviting NGOs, charities, community groups, youth organisations or any service supporting the project age cohort working with 18-25 year olds who are seeking asylum, have refugee status or have been resettled into new communities around Ireland to take part in Wavelength
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By: Rev. David White Rector of Carlow Union of Parishes Welcome is one of those things we often take so much for granted that we don’t notice it. But we all know what it feels like not to be made welcome. Empty words matched with empty gestures make us uncomfortable, uneasy and unvalued. People of
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New Beginnings and Highlights for 2018 Colletta Dalikeni For DKIT Welcome College of Sanctuary Steering Group Here are highlights of some of our events in 2018 Our journey towards making DkIT a College of Sanctuary started on 24th May 2018 with an inaugural meeting of the working group which was attended by members of
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DCU’s Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education ( St. Patrick’s Campus) is holding an Intercultural Education Conference on 25th and 26th January 2019. The theme of the conference is: Intercultural Education: Beyond the Single Story. Places of Sanctuary Ireland will be holding a School of Sanctuary workshop on the 25th in one of the
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Belfast City of Sanctuary has been working closely with the Education Authority of Northern Ireland to support the Schools of Sanctuary initiative. One crucial part of the preparation was the training of appraisal teams, a mix of refugees, asylum seekers and local Belfast COS supporters, who have been going into schools and looking at the
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The University of Limerick has announced that it will offer 15 new undergraduate scholarships to refugees and asylum seekers starting in September. This is in addition to 15 one-year mature student access certificate scholarships, which were first introduced last year for people living in Direct Provision. Marking the United Nations World Refugee Day, this will
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In May, Athlone IT celebrated their first group of graduates from the Refugee Online Education programme (ROLE). All of the graduates are residents of the direct provision centre in Athlone and completed various MOOCs (online courses) in their personal areas of interest. If any other group would be interested creating a similar ROLE programme in
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