By Rosín Mernagh Our Pledge Day for our School of Sanctuary Ireland membership application took place here in Colaiste Bride, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford on Thursday 12th September 2024. We incorporated our Pledge Awareness Week with our annual Friendship Week because we felt that both important events complemented each other perfectly in our DEI and […]
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Already the county with the first ever award of a Library of Sanctuary, Co. Laois now has its first Champion School of Sanctuary- Dunamase College in Portlaoise. 🎉🙌🥳🎈 A Schools of Sanctuary Ireland monitoring team visited the school on Wednesday December 13th, a team comprising Andy Pollak (Places of Sanctuary Ireland board member), Homayoon
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The great county of Cork has its first Champion School of Sanctuary! Millstreet Community School became the third school in Cork to receive the award but it is the first such awarded school outside of the city. On Friday November 24th, a large monitoring team representing Schools of Sanctuary Ireland visited Millstreet Community School. Each
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Coláiste Chiaráin, a KWETB school in Leixlip, became County Kildare’s second Champion School of Sanctuary on Thursday Nov 23rd, following the visit of a SoSI monitoring team. The Sanctuary lead in the school, Ms. Mairéad McDonnell had, with the support of colleagues, arranged for us to meet principal Mark Neville, DP Louise Doran and
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To mark World Teacher’s Day 2023, we asked some of our wonderful Sanctuary Ambassadors to share their gratitude for teachers in Ireland. Enjoy the video below! Thank you to Homayoon, Fahmeda, Tika, Khatira, Kinda, Manizha and Hashem for sharing these beautiful personal sentiments and touching words. 🥰❤️🫶🤝😊 The team of Schools of Sanctuary Ireland echoes
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Waterford Interfaith Group is holding a congratulatory event on Thursday, September 23rd at 7.00pm to mark the recent installation of Rev. Sahr Yambasu as President of the Methodist Church of Ireland. Rev. Sahr is the first person of African descent to hold this office. To view the event please click on the Zoom link below.
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Wexford Sanctuary Ambassadors opened a new chapter of their eventful year on Saturday December 19th when they opened Sanctuary Space, an exhibition displaying the skills of people living in Direct Provision. The exhibition, which featured clothing, crafts, art and jewellery created and designed during lockdown, was opened by Senator Malcolm Byrne on Saturday and visitors
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Congratulations to the 42 Schools of Sanctuary in Northern Ireland, including 14 new Schools of Sanctuary in Belfast, Lisburn and in Derry/Londonderry this year. Thanks to Belfast City of Sanctuary and the Intercultural Service of the Education Authority for the sterling work they have done in preparing these Schools for the Award. The awards have been made possible by
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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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