Roisin Ryder
Fatima Groups United FRC
Community Development Worker
Fatima Health Project operated and managed by Fatima Groups United FRC, since 2003 is based in Fatima, Rialto. Health workers communicate with local residents to identify health issues and develop programmes in response to identified needs. This health project is driven, owned and firmly embedded in the community and based on the idea of wellness, not illness, The projectworks from a social determinants model of health (Dahlgren & Whitehead, 1991) promoting health by providing services that local residents may not have access to, due to poverty or social exclusion. Since 2017 it operates the Dublin 8 Social Prescribing Service.
