July 2007- Attention Parents of 3-5yr old Children!

Adrienne has organised one week´s Physical Exercise Classes for 3-5 year old children that are living in the Eglinton for one week in mid-July. Well done Adrienne!
The Stretch & Grow classes will take place in Scoil Einde on Threadneedle Road Salthill, only a few minutes walk from the Eglinton.
There are only a limited number of places available. So if you are interested, please immediately leave your name and details of your child as a message at the Eglinton reception marked for the attention of Carole Raftery

Summer 2007 Events for Eglinton Residents

Click here to go to the 'Calendar of Events ' section of the website to check out what the Eglinton Residents' Support committee have organised for Summer 2007.
Many of these activities are specifically planned for the benefit of families and children.

'Children's Day in Eyre Square - July 1st

Children’s Day

Sunday, 1st July, 2.00 – 4.00 p.m. Eyre Square, Galway Free Events! Live music, fun & activities

including:

Acrobats, Mobile Playbus, Face Painters, Mobile Farm
Fire Engine, story-telling circles, music bands, disc-jockeys, Rugby, Basketball, Soccer and Football activities.

Free city Bus Éireann service for children from 2.30pm-4.30pm

'Galway Circus Project' for Children

There is a great opportunity now for parents of Eglinton to enhance the creative artistic skills of their children by having them enrol in the Galway Circus Project organised by our good friend (& brilliant clown!) Karen who did so much previously to ensure the success of our Halloween and Christmas parties.
Classes will take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Children have to be eight years or older.

For further information, contact 091-762940

physical activities for parents with children

As promised before another course of physical activities for parents with children is going to take place at the Eglinton Hotel on 21st November 2006.
So if you are interested to know how to deal with your children and to learn how to do some games with them, just leave your name and room number at the reception

The Galway One World Centre

The Galway One World Centre,(GOWC) is a development eductation centre "It's vision is to work towards creating an inclusive society where power and resources are justly shared where people live with dignity, freedom and self-determination."

Human beings have a profound need to belong, to feel connected to this world but racism by its nature works against mutuality and respect for our differences. This musical project will be set up not only to look and name our differences but celebrate our differences.
The GOWC recognizes that people need their story heard and their culture respected and recognized if we ! are to have an intercultural community in Galway.

AIM
To recognise, celebrate and promote the diversity in our community. To address the barriers that ger in the way of treating every human being as unique and deserning of respect.

Target Groups:
People from different cultural background including Black Irish, White Irish African/Asian, and European.

Time Scale:
There will be two musical sessions a week at three hours a session.
Project duration will be one year
Commences in September 2006

Ojectives:
To bring together people from different backgrounds to create a musical performance based on their own story.

To organize an anti-racism awareness training for the participants to understand, examine and challenge racism together.

To create an arts performance which is available to the Galway community.

The Friends Club

To all the children and parents in the Friends Club.
The Friends Club apologies for the cancellation of the club for the last few weeks. They have been met to try and make sure that the club is bigger and better for everyone. So please come along to the following metting:

Venue: Eglinton Hotel
Date: Monday 23rd October
Time: 6.30pm
Why: to explain the new structure of the club

Please note the following dates:

October 23rd , club for all 4-8 years old
October 30th , NO club
October 31st , Halloween party at the Eglinton Hotel
November 6th , club for all 9-12 years old

Friends Club

'There are my friends wait me always.'

Based in Leisureland, Salthill, the Friend's Club was founded for
children of refugees and asylum seekers between the ages of 4 to13 who live
in the Eglinton Hotel.

The members of this club organize various activities for children that
are resident in the Englinton Hotel. They collect the children from our
Hotel every Monday evening. While at Leisureland, the children go
swimming or play football, rugby and tennis. The youngest draw and create
many kinds of handmade crafts. All children are very happy and they are
waiting impatiently for the next meeting.

The club also organizes weekend events such as excursions, the latest
one to Clonmacnoise, a site of great historical interest and an area of
conservation. Other weekend activities have included trips to the
theatre and public readings, as well as participation in the Macnas Arts
Festival Parade. The Friend's club will also participate in the planned
Halloween Parade later this year.

The Friend's club is not only for children. The Committee of the
Friend's Club has decided to help the adults too. In a pilot project in
January 2006, the Friends Club invited all those from the Western and
Eglinton Hotels interested in learning English and topics of Irish Culture.
The organizers of this project include Mairead O'Connor, Ciara Bradley,
Paul Carroll, Javi Gimenez, Sara Mas Gil, Claire Healy, Lauren
O'Loughlen and David O'Keeffe. They prepared and held many interesting and
useful classes for us. Some of the topics discussed include the History of
Ireland, its Nature, Irish Sport, the Educational system, Irish
legislation, etc. All adults who completed those courses received Certificates
from the Friend's Club.

On behalf of residents of the Eglinton Hotel I wish to thank all
members of Friends Club for your help and support to us and our children.

Thank you very much!

Dmitriy Versinin