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Aims of the TVG: - Continue to promote Travellers as a nomadic ethnic group, with its own distinctive culture and lifestyles.
- Continue to promote Traveller self-determination and empowerment (enabling Travellers to make decisions and work in a collective way to bring about real change in their lives).
- Continue to work for real change and improvement in Travellers’ lives including the areas of education, accommodation, health, and employment / work and rights.
- To challenge discrimination and racism against Travellers.
- Continue to ensure the inclusion of Traveller issues and resource the real participation of Travellers in policy decisions and practices that affect their lives.
- Develop a suitable, well-resourced Travellers’ Centre and Crèche.
- Develop the TVG's management, administrative and staff structures and procedures.
- Promote mutual understanding, acceptance and support between Travellers and others in Irish Society
- Network links locally, regionally and nationally,
- Carry out research on the circumstances of Travellers in Cork and contribute to national research, which will inform the TVG's work.
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