Department of Social and Family Affairs
The Green Book 2002
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Services for Individuals & Families

Services for Community & Voluntary Sector
> Services for Individuals & Families > Travellers
>> TRAVELLERS

St. Finbarr's Training Centre:

 

Tel: 021 4210199 Fax: 021 4212219
Brocklesby Street, Blackpool, Cork

 

  • Training and Education for Travellers aimed at teenagers aged 15 - 19 years

 

 

Travellers' Chaplain:

 

Tel: 021 4270302
Fr. Oscar O'Leary, St. Francis' Church, Liberty Street, Cork

 

  • Assistance to Travellers in relation to Birth Certificates, First Holy
    Communions, Confirmations, etc.

 


Travellers' Visibility Group Ltd. (TVG):

 

Tel: 021 4503786 Fax: 021 4503693
11 Comeragh Park, The Glen, Cork
e-mail: tvg@indigo.ie www.communities.msn.com/TravellerVisibilityGroup/home.htm

 

  • Community Development Project led by Travellers for Travellers
  • Deals with issues which affect Travellers such as equality, education, health and housing
  • Supports a youth group of teenage Traveller girls, which caters for the five sites in Cork City and is run in conjunction with the National Youth Federation (Cork)

 


 

Traveller Women's Network:

 

Tel: 021 4975239
2 Tuckey Street, Cork

 

  • Set up to enable the main Traveller women's groups in Cork to have 'one voice'
  • Courses on such topics as assertiveness, women's health & wellbeing,
    self-esteem and leadership
  • Basic education is taught in English, Maths and literacy skills

 

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