Roma News Update

February 1st, 2012

Roma Com­munit­ies in Ire­land: Mater­nal and Child Health Seminar

Pavee Point and the HSE are organ­ising a series of them­atic sem­inars focus­ing on Roma com­munit­ies in Ire­land and the pro­vi­sion of ser­vices, for the dur­a­tion of 2012.  The next in the series of sem­inars will be on mater­nal and child health.

When & Where:

29 Feb­ru­ary 2012, 10am – 1pm.

Pavee Point Trav­el­lers’ Centre, North Great Charles Street, Dub­lin 1.

Object­ives:

  • Share inform­a­tion and exper­i­ences in rela­tion to Roma and mater­nal and child health;
  • Dis­cuss chal­lenges and identify good practice;
  • Identify needs of prac­ti­tion­ers work­ing with Roma families.

Tar­get Group:

The dis­cus­sion forum will be of interest to the following:

  • Mater­nity Hos­pital Staff
  • Pae­di­at­ric Hos­pital Staff
  • Pub­lic Health Nurses
  • Gen­eral Practitioners
  • Social Work­ers
  • FSA Work­ers
  • FRC Work­ers
  • Child­care Workers
  • Children’s Ser­vices Committees
  • Civil Soci­ety rep­res­ent­at­ives with interest in Mater­nal & Child Health

For more inform­a­tion or to RSVP please con­tact dara.student@pavee.ie

Data­base of services

Pavee Point and the HSE held a series of sem­inars on Roma in Ire­land and child pro­tec­tion con­sid­er­a­tions in 2011.  A key sup­port iden­ti­fied by prac­ti­tion­ers work­ing with Roma was to have access to a data­base of indi­vidu­als and organ­isa­tions who are work­ing with Roma com­munit­ies.  This will ensure increased inter-agency cooper­a­tion and enhance ser­vices being provided to Roma communities.

 

Pavee Point will be using a short online ques­tion­naire to con­nect with organ­isa­tions work­ing with Roma com­munit­ies, who will then be included in our online data­base.  We would greatly appre­ci­ate your par­ti­cip­a­tion as we will also use this ques­tion­naire to con­duct a pre­lim­in­ary map­ping of Roma com­munit­ies in Ire­land.  If you work with Roma and are inter­ested in par­ti­cip­at­ing please con­tact dara.student@pavee.ie

Pavee Point is seek­ing an intern to work with our Roma Project

Pavee Point is look­ing for an intern with strong exper­i­ence in organ­ising events to work with us in the lead up European Week against Racism and Inter­na­tional Roma Day.

The Roma Pro­ject intern will primar­ily work on organ­ising a sem­inar for March 2012 and events to cel­eb­rate Inter­na­tional Roma Day in April 2012.  The intern­ship will con­sist of up to 20 hours per week for a period of 3 months start­ing from Feb­ru­ary 2012.  Clos­ing date for applic­a­tions is Fri­day 3rd Feb­ru­ary 2012.  To apply send a copy of your CV with a cover let­ter to siobhan.curran@pavee.ie.  More about the pos­i­tion at www.paveepoint.ie

February 1st, 2012 | Category: News, Roma | Leave a comment

Fundraising for Bangladesh

February 1st, 2012

A fun­drais­ing effort in the week before Pavee Point’s Christ­mas break raised enough money to buy more than 300 blankets and jump­ers for Banglade­shis exper­i­en­cing a ser­i­ous cold snap in the country.

Nurul Amin, edu­ca­tion and train­ing man­ager for Pavee Point was made aware of the situ­ation in Decem­ber, when tem­per­at­ures in the nor­mally warm coun­try plunged close to freez­ing.  While this wouldn’t have been very ser­i­ous in Ire­land, Banglade­shi homes are designed to keep tem­per­at­ures down and homes well vent­il­ated — a cold snap leaves people in houses, and the many Banglade­shis who sleep out­doors, par­tic­u­larly vul­ner­able.  It’s known that at least 39 people died in the recent chill.

A fun­drais­ing effort was ini­ti­ated among staff at Pavee Point, who gave gen­er­ously before and dur­ing the office Christ­mas Party.  By the end of the day, more than €700 had been raised from among the Trav­el­lers and settled people within Pavee Point, then imme­di­ately trans­ferred to small groups work­ing on the ground in Bangladesh, who bought 262 blankets and 197 sweat­ers to be dis­trib­uted to the most needy.

The dis­tri­bu­tion in Bangladesh was run par­tially by aid work­ers oper­at­ing in their spare time, and dis­tri­bu­tion was to the needy and dis­abled first, with children’s jump­ers dis­trib­uted along­side blankets.  The pic­tures show the dis­tri­bu­tion tak­ing place — although we didn’t ask for or expect a ban­ner with Pavee Point’s name, it’s import­ant for aid work­ers in Bangladesh to be clear in their dis­tri­bu­tions who was respons­ible for provid­ing the neces­sary resources.

February 1st, 2012 | Category: News | Leave a comment

Children's Rights Referendum: Interview in full.

February 1st, 2012