Thread: There's been lots of interest in the toiletries for #DirectProvision drive that @BelltableLimk facilitated this weekend. This is a short thread of how it worked. If you can replicate in your town, city, county - please do. It is a small gesture to us, ppl living freely...
@BelltableLimk in Ireland and makes a huge difference to those living in #DirectProvision on E21 per week. So, our artist in residence @KatieOKelly1 made connections in the three Dp centres in Limerick city and county when researching her new play. We staged a work in progress reading with...
@BelltableLimk @KatieOKelly1 a panel discussion where @donnahsvuma spoke so eloquently, with such urgency and clarity, about her and her children's lives in #DirectProvision. We were all energised by the desire to help those who came to Ireland looking for a better life for themselves and their children...
Our colleague, @gillyfenton lent her house to Donnah and her children when Gill's family were on holidays over the Summer. It was the first time in years that Donnah was able to bring her children on holidays. Donnah's children made friends with kids in the town. Local ppl came..
@gillyfenton to know them and started asking if they could help. Gill and Donnah talked to other ppl in DP and it transpired that toiletries are a real issue when you have E21 pwk. Soap and toothpaste are provided free, everything else is one's ow responsibility. Gill asked her friends to ...
@gillyfenton buy one more thing every time they're shopping for toiletries for themselves. She asked us, her colleagues, to buy specific items, so that not everyone is buying the same thing. Some had baby products, hair products, sanitary towels, tipex, cotton wool, etc.. I buy toiletries...
@gillyfenton several times a month. The ask is to just add one more thing of what you are buying anyway, put it away and drop off to a collection point on a collection date, as we had today in Belltable. Gill then loaded two carloads of donations and drove to Knocklisheen DP to deliver them..
@gillyfenton I admire Gill in her determination to better the lives of others. As well as the toiletries drive, she is matching up #Limerick families with DP families to organise play dates for the children. Much more organisation needed for that, but there's no stopping Gill and Donnah...
@gillyfenton If you can replicate the idea of #BuyOneMoreThing to help ppl living in #DirectProvision, please do. It will make their lives here with us that little bit easier. Thank you. [end]
