• Medical Card & GP Visit Card
• Saturday, 13th of March, 4pm.
• Click to get more information or email Emilia Marchelewska: email hidden; JavaScript is required and how to get there.

After consulting with the Cairde’s Ethnic Minority Health Forum members, our clients and embassies Cairde gave feedback on the present hospital’s booklet on grief and grieving. Cairde also presented on how different ethnic and national communities deal with the loss of a child. African, Chinese, Polish and Roma perspectives were discussed. Recommendations were also given.

More info: Iryna Pokhilo, email hidden; JavaScript is required

Local & Global Women’s Fair

On  Friday 5th March 9.45am – 12.45pm in  Pavee Point, North Great Charles St (off Mountjoy Square), Dublin 1

9.45                 Registration, Tea, Coffee, Food

10.20     Introduction and welcome                                                              

• The tradition of International Women’s Day
• Introduce Guest speaker Maureen O’Sullivan
• Creative inputs from different women   

10.55 Workshops/activities

• Song workshop
• Wellbeing workshop
• Art workshop (self portraits)
• Circle dance workshop
• Paper flower making activity
• Hand massage
• Information stalls

Also:  Raffle/lucky dip

12.15 Presentation of outputs from workshop including circle dance and singing

Organised by The Local Global Women’s Partnership: Dublin Multi-Cultural Resource Centre, LYCS, AKIDWA, Dublin Adult Learning Centre, Diaspora Women’s Initiative (DWI), Cairde, Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland,  SAOL Project, Hill St FRC, Roma Programme and Pavee Point.

Anyone in the target risk groups who has not yet been vaccinated is advised to come to a HSE clinic for their vaccine before March 31st. In addition, any members of the general public who have not yet been offered vaccine may now come to a HSE clinic for swine flu vaccine. The vaccine is free of charge for everyone, and if you get the vaccine from your GP, you should not be charged any fee.

Where can I get the Vaccine?

GP and HSE Vaccine Clinics, Book a Visit to a HSE Vaccine Clinic Choose your location from the list below to see the clinics in that area

The Seminar is being organised by Ireland’s National Plan of Action to Address Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Steering Committee, which Cairde is a part of. 

Agenda:

• 10am Registration, tea and coffee
• 10.15 Welcome and opening address – Her Excellency Mrs Mannete Ramaili, Ambassador of Lesotho 
• 10.30 “FGM in Ireland: work to date” Sioban O’Brien Green, Co-ordinator Migrant Women’s Health Project, AkiDwA
• 10.45 “Ireland and International Obligations” Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director, Amnesty Ireland 
• 11am “FGM/C Abandonment Approaches – what can work and what doesn’t”
• Eileen Morrow, Programmes Coordinator East Africa, World Vision Ireland
• 11.30 “Community Responses to FGM in Ireland” Ifrah Ahmed & Ahmed Gadaf – Somali Community in Ireland 
• 12pm “FGM – an Islamic Response” Asiya Altawash, Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland 
• 12.15 “FGM Legislation” Senator Ivana Bacik, Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin 
• 12.30 “Ending Female Genital Mutilation: A Strategy for the European Union Institutions” Salome Mbugua, National Director, AkiDwA 
• 12.45 Panel Discussion with speakers
• 1.20 Summary and close of seminar – Her Excellency Mrs Mannete Ramaili, Ambassador of Lesotho 
• 1.30 Close

Topics up for conversation on the day included; issues on what would the focus of EMHF be in 2010? Suggestions included; giving free medical talks, developing support groups for different ethnic minority groups and the need to strengthen information provision and to motivate and educate communities on their health entitlements.

Discussions took place on this been delivered through the creation of different working groups to focus on various issues, information campaigns to get to targeted people, through peer education so that people can bring back information to their local communities and through creating links with the Irish Congress of General Practitioners.

Other topics on the agenda included bereavement policy in Temple Street Children’s Hospital and the need for this service to be in an ethnic minority perspective. Other discussions were based around the improvement of Cairde’s website. 

For information on the minutes of the meeting please email Junyu at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Community Health Workers positions (Community Employment Scheme)  application is now closed.

  Read more

 On Sunday the 10^th of January 2009 Polish community organized an event to collect donations for the prevention and early detection of cancer of young children.

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation for the 18^th time in Poland and the 4^th in Ireland collected money to help the youngest patients in Polish hospitals.

During the Dublin’s event the best musicians performed. In the evening celebrity presenters invited bids on the Great Orchestra’s items:  passes to cinemas and theatres, artwork, the Polish ambassador’s tie and many more! 

Participants could also get advice at information stoles.  Cairde supports initiative and provided information about our services.  www.wospdublin.org

Health

• Medical card – From April, 2010 medical card holders will pay €0,50 for each item prescribed, but no more then by €10 per month per family.
• Drug payment scheme – From January the monthly threshold has been increased from €100 to €120.
• There are no increases in the statutory charges for Accident & Emergency, day, inpatient and long stay services.

 Social welfare

New social welfare rates can be found here.