Every Child is Your Child

Every Child is Your Child Direct Provision is a huge burden and challenge for children and parents. The average waiting time for a decion is 36 months.

We want to raise awareness but mostly want to give kids in our community a chance to have a full life :) Every Child is Your Child is a community group from Limerick set up with the overall goal of raising much needed funds for parents living in Direct Provision. Every Child is Your Child is about bringing people together for a common purpose, which is to empower, motivate, and encourage harmony a

nd interdependence among parents, focusing on those living in direct provision. All children deserve the chance to live full and happy lives and we want to help them do just that. Direct provision is intended to provide for the welfare of asylum seekers and their families as they await decisions on their asylum application in Ireland. Around a quarter of all residents of Direct provision centres at the end of 2015 were children. Asylum seekers are forced to live on a weekly allowance of €38.60 per week and €28.10 per child per week. It is a huge burden and challenge for parents, and for children, especially those of school going age. It becomes an even bigger challenge on parents of children reaching major milestones such as starting secondary school and college with such a meagre income and no access to the workplace, it is impossible to meet all the requirements and provide all the associated necessities. We believe that education is the most key aspect in the development of a child. We are on a mission to assist parents living in Direct Provision who face particular difficulties in putting kids through school such as stationery, book rental fees or new uniforms or books etc. Primarily we aim to do this through our annual Dinner Evening in Thomond Park stadium Limerick. It is always be a fun night for all as we share enriching stories from key speakers, and enjoy some great food and wonderful entertainment acts. Please help us in our cause to aid parents living in Direct Provision. Facebook – Every Child is Your Child for more information
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It is live.For every child sitting inside an IPAS accommodation centre this summer while the rest of Ireland plays outsi...
02/06/2026

It is live.

For every child sitting inside an IPAS accommodation centre this summer while the rest of Ireland plays outside, this is for them.

CONNECT is back. Three camps. Three days each. Multiple locations across the Midwest. Up to 150 children out of centres and into their communities this summer.
We need your help to make it happen. Every single euro goes directly to the camps.

https://gofund.me/5163dff1c

€20 gives one child a full day.
€120 gives one child their complete three-day CONNECT experience.
€4,500 sponsors an entire camp.

Whatever you can give, it matters. And if you cannot give right now, sharing this page costs nothing and could reach the person who changes everything for one of these children.

The link is in our bio. Every child deserves a summer. Help us make it theirs.

https://gofund.me/5163dff1c

In 2017, A bus left Knockalisheen and travelled less than 3km down the road to Moyross. The shortest of journeys. But fo...
29/05/2026

In 2017, A bus left Knockalisheen and travelled less than 3km down the road to Moyross. The shortest of journeys. But for the children on that bus, it was the first time they had ever been in their own community outside of school hours. Not as pupils. Not as residents of a centre. Just as children, with somewhere to go and people genuinely glad to see them.

That 2km changed something. In them. In us. In the community that showed up to welcome them.

Michele Ryan helped us take that dream and make it real. walked alongside us. Limerick City and County Council backed us. Limerick Youth Service showed up. Archie was there. The Moyross Youth Academy Centre and the Céim ar Chéim team gave it a home. brought magic. , , .boevi , , Archie, so many amazing volunteers and supporters, all extraordinary people who believed in it too.

It was mighty. We still feel it.

In the years that followed, something beautiful spread across Ireland. Hundreds of summer camps. A movement that quietly began. We had helped start something.

But here is where we are now.

There are over 9,000 children in IPAS accommodation in Ireland today. Nine thousand children. The centres have multiplied. Funding has dried up. The momentum that built after 2017 has faded. And too many of those children are still at that same window, watching summer happen without them.

We can not let that stand.

This summer, CONNECT is back. Four to six camps across Ireland. Children out of centres. Into communities. Into joy. Into the Irish summer that belongs to them as much as to any child.

Over the coming weeks we will share how you can be part of this, how to donate, how to volunteer, how to bring CONNECT to your community.

For now, we just want you to remember that child. And know that you have the power to change what happens next for them.

Will you show up with us?

17/05/2026

9,878 children are living in IPAS accommodation in Ireland right now.

Every week that passes is a week of their childhood gone. Missing stability. Missing certainty. Missing the childhood every child in Ireland deserves.

This is official government data. We read it every week so you don’t have to. And we will never let these children become just a number in a report nobody reads.

These are not numbers. These are children.

Follow because these children need people who refuse to look away.

Share this. Because you cannot unsee this now.

14/05/2026

In 2008, Ireland was already debating asylum, accommodation centres, integration, and migration.

17 years later, the language has changed very little.

What has changed is the scale of fear, polarisation, and misinformation surrounding people seeking safety and dignity.

This clip is an important reminder that migration is not a “new crisis” suddenly appearing out of nowhere. These conversations have existed for decades. So have the people behind them.

At ECIYC, we believe history matters because memory matters. When public debate loses context, humanity is often the first casualty.

The challenge before Ireland is not whether migration exists.
It is whether we respond with fear or with fairness.

Inclusion ECIYC HistoryMatters

Over 1,200 people with refugee status or permission to remain have reportedly been told they must leave IPAS accommodati...
13/05/2026

Over 1,200 people with refugee status or permission to remain have reportedly been told they must leave IPAS accommodation by July, including families with children.

This exposes a growing contradiction at the centre of the system:

Recognition without housing is not integration.

Legal status may end one form of uncertainty, but without realistic housing pathways, many people remain vulnerable to homelessness and long term instability.

Emergency accommodation was designed as a temporary response. Over time, it has evolved into a parallel infrastructure managing pressures that extend far beyond emergency arrivals alone. Ireland’s housing crisis is increasingly colliding with its protection system.

The conversation can no longer focus only on entry into the system.

It also has to confront what happens after protection is granted.

Integration DirectProvision IrishPolitics

There are no disposable children.No child should have to earn our compassion through nationality, paperwork, religion, o...
12/05/2026

There are no disposable children.
No child should have to earn our compassion through nationality, paperwork, religion, or circumstance.

A child seeking safety is still a child.
A child carrying trauma is still a child.
A child living in direct provision, beneath falling bombs, crossing borders in fear, or going to sleep hungry belongs to the moral responsibility of all of us.

The measure of a society is not how loudly it speaks about children, but how fiercely it protects them when protection becomes inconvenient.

Because childhood should never be politicised.
It should never be something debated only when it is comfortable to care.

Every child deserves warmth.
Safety.
Dignity.
Rest.
Joy.
The freedom to grow without fear shaping their nervous system before they even understand the world.

And every time we normalise the suffering of children — through silence, indifference, racism, poverty, displacement, or war — we lose something of our own humanity too.

The truth is simple:
No child is “other people’s business.”
No child is outside the boundaries of our concern.

They are all our children.
And the world we build around them will become the verdict history delivers on us.

Inspired by the words of James Baldwin.
Art by Rick Frausto.

Parenting in the digital age means keeping up with changes that happen quietly, without announcement. If your child uses...
10/05/2026

Parenting in the digital age means keeping up with changes that happen quietly, without announcement. If your child uses Instagram, this is worth knowing.

On May 8th, Instagram quietly removed a privacy feature from direct messages, and most people didn’t hear about it. This carousel breaks down what changed, what it means for young people, and how to use it as a starting point for a conversation with your child about their online life.

Because staying informed is one of the best things we can do as parents. 💙 Save this and share it with a parent who needs to see it.

Why are some children in Ireland denied Child Benefit?Child Benefit is a universal payment intended to support the basic...
11/04/2026

Why are some children in Ireland denied Child Benefit?

Child Benefit is a universal payment intended to support the basic needs of children living in the State.

However, children residing in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system are excluded from access to this support.

This is not a new oversight.

In 2020, the Catherine Day Advisory Group recommended a fundamental restructuring of the Direct Provision system, including improvements to income adequacy and living standards for those within it.

This was followed by the Government’s 2021 White Paper to End Direct Provision, which set out a transition towards a rights-based, person-centred international protection system.

Yet, despite these commitments, differential access to core child-related income supports persists.

The result is a clear inconsistency:

Children with equivalent needs, residing in the same State, are treated differently within the social protection framework.

This raises a substantive policy question:

Should access to universal child income supports be contingent on immigration status?

This is not an abstract debate.
It is a live issue shaping the material conditions of childhood in Ireland today.

We welcome considered perspectives.

10/04/2026

Every girl begins with a full horizon of possibility.

By around age five, that horizon starts to narrow. Not because her ambition changes, but because the world starts telling her what is realistic, what is appropriate, and what is allowed.

The Dream Gap is not abstract. It is built through repeated signals, expectations, and biases that quietly shape confidence long before choices are ever made.

Initiatives such as the Barbie Dream Gap Project led by Barbie exist to challenge those limitations and push back against the early erosion of possibility. Work by The Female Quotient continues to spotlight how structural bias forms and how it can be interrupted.

But awareness alone does not close the gap.

It closes when every environment a girl moves through reinforces capability over limitation, and when ambition is met with validation rather than correction.

If we can shape belief early, we can expand what becomes possible later.

Most people never ask one key question:Where is the money going?Children are growing up in these conditions while accomm...
29/03/2026

Most people never ask one key question:

Where is the money going?

Children are growing up in these conditions while accommodation continues to be paid for, every single day.

This is not just a capacity issue,
It is a systems issue.

At Every Child Is Your Child, we are responding to what families need right now.

Not what policy promises in the future

If you can:
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• Help us reach more families

Because children cannot wait!

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