Daily Archives: September 12, 2024

The local community of Pušča shows a rather different image of a Roma settlement compared to the Roma settlements in Dolenjsko. In the village there is a shop, a fire brigade, a football club and also a bookstore. The kindergarten, which has been around for more than 60 years, is especially important.

In the Romano kindergarten in Pušča, in addition to the teachers, there is also a Roma helper who makes sure that the children from the village get used to everyday life in the kindergarten as soon as possible.

Nice, but this is segregated schooling, which is not good.

• Ponosen obraz Pušče: Od vrtca in gasilcev do nogometnega igrišča in trgovine. In: Sobota Info. 12.09.2024. https://sobotainfo.com/novica/lokalno/ponosen-obraz-pusce-od-vrtca-gasilcev-do-nogometnega-igrisca-trgovine/253294
• Na Pušči gradijo Most razvoja, prišla naj bi tudi Pirc Musar. In: Sobota Info. 11.09.2024. https://sobotainfo.com/novica/lokalno/na-pusci-gradijo-most-razvoja-prisla-naj-bi-tudi-pirc-musar/253250

We are not all the same, say the Roma at the community center in the Brezje Roma settlement in Novo Mesto. The coordinator for Roma groups at the DRPD, Elzana Adnan Odjoski, deals with them there. She runs a program aimed at teenagers and young mothers, in which young people from the age of 15 are involved.

The young mothers agree that their children should go to kindergarten, but not to a Roma kindergarten, but to a normal kindergarten, where they get to know other children and learn the language at the same time. They also said that “Some talk to us, some don’t even look at us, and some immediately run away when they see us”.

• »Nekateri se pogovarjajo z nami, nekateri nas niti ne pogledajo, nekateri pa takoj zbežijo, ko nas vidijo«. In: Svet24. 11.09.2024. https://svet24.si/clanek/novice/slovenija/66e195e1cd45d/romi-romska-skupnost-dolenjska-brezje-zabjak-drpd