Daily Archives: Februar 15, 2023

Czech Republic: A Success Story

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The story of a small town in the mountains which, 10 years ago had several Roma settlements on the outskirts of the town, where Roma did not attend school, with high unemployment. Thanks to the effort of a social worker Markéta Horneková, who developed a community centre so that the children had somewhere to spend their time meaningfully after school and built a team of field workers from local skilled Roma who were eager to make a difference, huge progress was made.

With the mayor also pitching in, the situation has totally changed ten years later.

Well done.

Slovakia: Scathing Assessment

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A really scathing assessment of the Slovak Republic Strategy for Roma education between 2016 and 2020. According to the official audit, 173 Mio Euros were spent, which in comparison to 500’000 Roma in the country is not exactly a lot.

The programs did not meet their own set goals. Worse, the programs did not have clearly specified goals. Thus, according to the article, “it was not possible to monitor the progress and adapt the activities or to inform the public about the development. Later, the indicators were modified, which lost continuity and made everything even more unclear. What did not change over time was the problem of data unavailability. They were missing during the entire period.”

Slovenia: Really???

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As part of the National Platform for Roma project, the Government Office for Nationalities has prepared a video competition on the topic of early and forced marriages in the Roma community. It is possible to register a video, the purpose of which will be to raise awareness and educate about the inadmissibility of early and forced marriages in the Roma community.

Well, forced marriages are not the norm. Early are common, because married life means living with someone else. This “competition” will increase the stereotypes, not fight against poverty and exclusion.

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