On International Women’s Day, Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is sharing reflections from some of its longest-serving Traveller Primary Health Care Workers.

Missy, Maggie and Molly discuss what it means to them to be a Traveller women, and how they see the lives of Traveller women in the community have changed from one generation to the next.

Missy Collins, Traveller Primary Health Care Worker with Pavee Point’s Primary Health Care for Travellers Project

“I was always very proud of who I am, and I suppose, in the older years I’m very proud to be a grandmother, and a great grandmother, and to pass some of the knowledge that I know about Travellers on to the younger generation as well.“.. Read More here…

‘I’m very proud of being a Traveller – a Travelling woman. We have a different culture from settled people, but yet, I can make good friends with a settled woman.’ .. Read more here

“My father was a tinsmith. We had to move from camp to camp and it was very hard in the winter.”.. Read more here