Month: February 2019

While the Government achieve an overall ‘C’ grade in Report Card 19, published by the Children’s Rights Alliance a low grade, ‘D-’, is awarded in relation to Traveller and Roma Children. This represents a small but significant decrease on the ‘D+’ attributed last year. Homelessness “While there has been welcome progress on the National Traveller […]

We were delighted to get to meet Health Minister, Simon Harris TD last week (21 Feb) and to get his endorsement for the Traveller Health Action Plan. Crucial to the success of this plan is the establishment of a Planning Advisory Body for Traveller Health (PATH) which should be staffed and resourced to ensure the […]

There has been no tangible improvement in the education, accommodation, employment and health of Travellers and Roma  despite the Government’s National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy launched in June 2017,  a report to the European Commission states. Accommodation Worse According to this report, the inequality gap between Travellers and Roma, and the majority population remains […]

Pavee Point received two ‘plain English’  awards this week for our maternal health initiative – Pavee Mothers, awarded by the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA). Our booklet Pavee Mothers was awarded 2nd place out of 70 nominations in the Best Use of Plain English by an Organisation category . Our website paveemothers.ie  received a “highly […]

Pavee Mothers was part of the showcase of HSE Excellence Awards which took place in the Mansion House last week.  Our project, is a phone friendly website developed with  Traveller women for Traveller women with information to support mothers-to-be during and after pregnancy. The awards reflect the high quality of work being undertaken with the HSE.  […]