Services We Offer
Integration
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Social
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Cultural
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Religious
Housing
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Advocacy
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Settlement
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Follow Up
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Mediation
Information
Support
for unaccompanied minors
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homework
club
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Social
Activities
Education
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English
language classes
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Computer
training
Women's
Group
Advice
with asylum process
Awareness
programmes
Our
Services are
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Informal and friendly
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Professional
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Confidential
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Accessible
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Free
We are a non governmental
organisation
Volunteering in the Vincentian Refugee Centre
We recognise that volunteers
play an important role in the running of the Centre. We welcome
volunteers regardless of their cultural and ethnic origin, religion, age,
gender, physical or social or economic background. Further
information is available at the Centre.
The Vincentian Refugee
Centre is a parntership of the Vincentian Community, the Daughters of
Charity and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
For more information on the work of the
Vincentian Refugee Centre contact:
Sr. Breege Keenan, DC (Administrator)
Mr. Adrian Cristea (Settlement Officer)
Vincentian Refugee Centre
St. Peter’s Church, Phibsboro, Dublin 7, Ireland
Tel: +353 (1) 8102580
Fax: +353 (1) 8389950
E-mail: refugeecentrephibsboro@eircom.net
Donations
to support our work
may be sent to: Sr. Breege Keenan, DC Administrator, St. Peter's Church, Phibsboro, Dublin 7
Ireland
Other Contacts:
National Consultative
Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, (NCCRI)
Third Floor,
Jervis House,
Jervis Street,
Dublin 1
Tel 01- 8588000
Fax: 01-8727621
Integrating Ireland,
c/o Comhlamh,
10 Upper Camden Street,
Dublin 2
Phone: 01-1 4783490
Fax: 01 -4783738
Homeless Agency,
Parkgate Hall,
6-9 Conyngham Road,
Dublin 8
Tel: 01-7036100
Fax: 01-7036710
Dublin City
Council
Civic Offices
Wood Quay
Dublin 8
Tel: 01-2222222
Refugee & Migrant Project of the Bishop's
Conference
Columba Centre,
Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Tel: + 353 (1) 5053157
Fax: + 353 (1) 6016401
E-mail: refproject@iecon.ie
Irish Refugee Council
88 Capel Street, Dublin 1
Tel: 353 1 873 0042 or 353 1 872 4424
Fax: 353 1 873 0088
E-Mail:mailto:refugee@iol.ie
www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie
Comhlamh
10 Upper Camden Street, Dublin 2 Ireland
Tel: + 353 (1) 478 3490
Fax: + 353 (1) 478 3738
E-mail: info@comhlamh.org
www.comhlamh.org
UNHCR
www.unhcr.ch
Amnesty International
Tel: 6676361
www.amnesty.ie
What is it like to be a Refugee ?
learn more about the global situation of refugees by visiting
the UNHCR
website.
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St. Peter's National
School Parish of the Travelling
People
The
Big Cauldron
The Vincentian Refugee Centre is
A place for strangers
Peculiar people with
Shattered minds
Strangers from the cold
In need of warmth and attention.
Vincentian Refugee Centre has
Two big listening ears
One beams to the hosts
The other tunes to the strangers
Without bias it balances information
Allaying fears of further persecution and stereotypes.
Vincentian Refugee Centre
Provides the springboard
From where its strange visitors
Begin to pick up
The pieces of their lives
And start a new life in a strange land.
Poem by David Ayo from Nigeria,
read at the
launch of the Vincentian Refugee Centre in March 2001
I didn’t know they were so lonely…
"Our
class visited the Vincentian Refugee Centre and talked to a number of
refugees and asylum seekers. They all had different stories to tell. My
thoughts have changed on refugees. I didn’t know they were so lonely. I
didn’t know they had such a hard time. Each person had more than one story
of racism they encountered. The government sometimes makes them wait for
years to see if they can get refugee status. We brought back all the
information to our school and made a display for the school about what we
had found out. I think it helped to challenge people’s prejudices."
Aoife
Hill, 3c, St. Michael’s Holy Faith School, Finglas. (extracted from VRC
Annual Report)
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