Half the 600+ at Kerry jobs fair were refugees
Changing Ireland
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Half the 600+ people who attended a jobs fair in Co. Kerry on Monday were refugees or asylum-seekers. Interviews took place on the spot and employers, job-seekers and the organisers – focused as they are on integration – rightly declared the event a success.
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OUR REPORT INCLUDES 6 VIDEO INTERVIEWS. For example, among the refugees we met was Olya Marymtseva who is one of the first Ukrainians to get a full-time job here in Ireland.
“Hope is what we got from today. I saw job interviews take place in front of my eyes. And I was sitting on the floor with a laptop working for Kerry ETB,” she said.
Webinars and a further online event are being organised to introduce people to employment rights in Ireland. Follow @movingonkerry on Instagram or the Newkd Facebook page for updates.
The jobs fair was funded through North East West Kerry Development’s ‘Moving On’ employment project and the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP). Moving On is co-funded by the Irish Government and the European Social Fund as part of the ESF Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2022.
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