Abolish Direct Provision’s next event to help women living in Direct Provision will include an artist’s talk by Nicola Anthony. ABP are hoping to bring at least 500 women from various centres in locations such as Cork, Wexford, Monaghan, Sligo and Galway to this day of learning and showing solidarity with asylum seekers at UCD.

Nicola Anthony has been asked to give a talk at this event about the themes of loneliness and isolation that occur in her artistic practice.

Topics

• Mental Health Human Rights and Legal advise (especially area of Human Trafficking)

• Career Planning (Rose)

• Preparation for Employment in Ireland (Rose)

• LGBT Rights while living in DP

• Creative/Story Writing

• Empowerment Circles (Fiadh Contact)

• Loneliness & Art (Nicola Anthony)

Tickets can be purchased here.

About Abolish Direct Provision

Abolish Direct Provision Ireland is a grassroots Campaign that was started in November 2018 with the main purpose of creating awareness about this horrible system of Direct Provision, empower asylum seekers while they wait for their papers to be process and engage the government to abolish this inhumane system that has been welcoming asylum seekers to Ireland since 2000.

There are currently over 4,000 women (44% of DP population) living in some inhumane conditions in Direct Provision Centres in Ireland.

Women receive only 38 Euros per week allowance. Women with Children receive no child allowance from the Government. The allowance women receive on a weekly basis have to cater for sanitary products which is not provided by the Contractors.

Depression is very high among women living in Direct Provision. There have been some cases of suicide in DP Centres. Single women in direct provision usually share a bedroom & one toilet with minimum 5 other women on average for 4 years.

We are planning this conference to bring women in Ireland and direct provision together in solidarity and empower those that have to live in this brutal system while contractors make millions on their misery.

You can visit www.directprovision.org if you would like to help out or volunteer.