Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is looking to recruit a Advocacy Worker for for our Violence Against Women Programme. The Advocacy Worker will work to implement programme aims and objectives in order to address...
Critical to mitigating COVID19 within the Traveller and Roma communities during this crisis has been the partnership approach adopted by the HSE, government departments and Traveller organisations. The level of interdepartmental work now...
Gabi Mutean, Community Development Worker talks about Roma Resistance Day “We commemorate the uprisings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp of Roma prisoners. The SS came to the Gypsy Camp to send all the prisoners...
Pavee Point highlighted mental health inequalities for Travellers and the impact of COVID19 on Travellers mental health at a conference with policy makers on mental health yesterday. We outlined our concerns around an increase in racism...
Pavee Point and the National Traveller Women’s Forum have written to Education Minister, Joe McHugh TD to urge the Minister to ensure that cancelling the Leaving Cert will not impact negatively on Traveller and...
Traveller men in North Dublin are taking advantage of this week’s 5k travel limit to raise funds for HSE Heroes – https://ie.gofundme.com/f/run-for-our-hse-heroesExercise not only keeps you physically fit but helps keep you mentally fit as...
More than 1 in 10 women worldwide experience mental health issues during and after pregnancy. We know Traveller women are disproportionately affected by poor mental health and suicide so it’s really important to support...
Traveller Community Health Workers act as liaison between the Traveller community and health service providers. During COVID-19 their work is vital in mitigating the impact of the virus. “It’s important to build up trust...
On Poetry Day (30 April) we are reproducing a poem ‘The Lane’ by Traveller poet Helen Hutchinson. Photo: Helen Hutchinson reading her poetry at the Lived Lives exhibition, Pavee Point 2015. Photo by Derek...
Playwright Rosaleen McDonagh is among 100 writers asked to participate in The Abbey Theatre – Dear Ireland – theatrical postcards during COVID19. These are rapid response monologues written and recorded in self-isolation and are...
