The Department of Education has allocated £600,000, most of it from the European Social Fund, to 13 women's education projects.
The funding has gone to Aontas, for a national support structure to address women's educational disadvantage; the National Traveller Women's Project; the Shanty Educational Project in Tallaght; the Women's Education and Resource Centre, UCD; and Greater Blanchardstown Development Project for a women's studies outreach programme.
The others include Adapt in Limerick city, for a project with women subjected to family violence; Dillon's Cross project for the wives and families of prisoners, Cork city; South West Kerry Women's Association; the Dublin Adult Learning Centre, for a women's basic education project; the Bosnian Community Development Project, Dublin, for refugee women to have access to education; Cherish, Dublin, for a training manual for single mothers; Power Partnership, Dun Laoghaire, for a women's political development programme; Newbury House young mothers programme, Cork; and the Irish Deaf Society, Dublin.