May 2018 - Pavee Point

Poverty Stone – an Inner City Project

This week in Pavee Point we were delighted to take part in a North Inner City project to mark the 10th Anniversary of the unveiling of the Dublin Human Rights and Poverty Stone. Travellers showed solidarity with other groups, and also highlighted the issue of Traveller poverty, by writing their human rights messages on stones. […]

Traveller and Roma Pride 2018: Women’s Voices

To celebrate Traveller and Roma Pride Week, Pavee Point are highlighting women’s voices through a video series. These videos feature four powerful Traveller and Roma women speaking about feminism, identity, community and their role models. Thank you to Rosaleen McDonagh, Tessa Collins, Dr. Ethel Brooks, and Gabi Muntean for sharing their experiences of breaking boundaries […]

Euro Reps on Travellers and Roma meet in Belfast

The first joint meeting of the Collaborative Platform on Social and Economic Rights and the Operational Platform for Roma Equality took place this week at the initiative of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. The meeting was aimed to look at the protection of the rights to accommodation of Travellers and the rights to housing […]

Vaccination Awareness via Traveller Primary Health Care Projects

Vaccination Awareness Initiative Why? Travellers have a population demographic similar to developing countries: over 25% of the population are under the age of 15yrs with the highest population amongst the aged 0-4yrs category. This coupled with the high infant mortality rates means it is imperative that Travellers are supported to make informed decisions about immunisation, […]

Traveller Primary Healthcare Vital for Improved Health

Great to have Ann O’ Shea, Head of Service Primary Care, HSE at Pavee Point this week. Ms. O Shea met with Traveller Community Healthcare Workers and heard how important it is to protect and resource Traveller Health Units and Traveller Primary Health Care Projects. ‘It’s at this level we find out about the emerging […]

‘Urgent Interventions’ Needed on Traveller Mental Health

‘Travellers, whose suicide rates continue to be unacceptably high, deserve an urgent intervention from the State’ – the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care said in its interim report last month. (Photos by Derek Speirs) Today at Pavee Point we hosted Minister for Mental Health and Older People, Jim Daly, TD […]

Maynooth University Confers 24 Traveller And Roma Graduates

Maynooth University today confers 24 men and women from Traveller and Roma communities across Ireland as graduates of its Community Work in a Changing Ireland Level 7 Certificate programme. (Photos by Derek Speirs) Speaking at the ceremony Anastasia Crickley from the Department of Applied Social Studies commented: “In a context where fewer than 13% of […]