Cork students rally to call for major changes to Direct Provision system

The Khan brothers Mujtuba, Umer and Zubar, with acting school principal Aaron Wolfe and staff and pupils of Coláiste Eamann Rís, Deerpark, after a decision was made to revisit the deportation order made against the brothers and their family. Meanwhile one hundred first year students from the school travelled to Waterford today to take take in a rally against the Direct Provision System.

The paper said that “schools cannot compensate for a direct provision system that isolates young people, that keeps them trapped in poverty, that fails to provide basic rights to privacy and family life and that too often leaves young people feeling lonely, dispirited, without hope and without the chance to pursue their ambitions and futures”.