To fight against child labor, and particularly young Roma, Albanian teachers’ unions are mobilizing, trying to prevent school dropouts. But difficult to fill all the gaps of a drifting system.
About 30 Roma women and girls from Odesa Oblast completed financial and information literacy training, which consisted of three trainings and homework assignments. The participants of the trainings, in particular, learned to plan and manage an individual / family budget, safely work with various information and detect fakes, use government online services for employment and social assistance. According to the organisers, this will help Roma women and girls to become more financially independent and strengthen their socio-economic capacity in the difficult context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Four young musicians from the Roma settlement of Nadezhda in Sliven will play in the Pierre Boulez Hall of the Paris Philharmonic on February 26. They are invited to take part in a classical concert of 120 young people from 27 countries as part of the DEMOS project of one of the largest philharmonics in the world, which provides a stage for children from social groups with difficult access to culture and education.
The EU driven Strategy for Equality, Inclusion and Roma Participation until 2030 takes the form of the first action plan. The proposal of assignments and tasks for the period 2022-2024 was submitted by the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic to an interdepartmental comment procedure.
The action plan proposes measures in five priority areas: The areas of employment, education, health and housing are key to meeting the goals of the strategy, special emphasis is also placed on intensifying interventions in the fight against anti-Roma racism.
Hungary’s Roma suffer from exclusion, poverty and a lack of education. But many Roma politicians are ensnared in conflict and corruption instead of finding a remedy. And there are no Roma in Parliament.
Orban’s government is fuelling this corruption in search for votes.
This is bad.
The person arrested for the murder of a young teacher, Ashling Murphy, is a Slovak, and apparently also Rom. This is bad. A Slovak MP, Peter Pollak, urged to refrain from collective guilt on Roma.
The Slovak view on the intervention of the Slovak MP Peter Pollak on the arrest of a suspect for the murder of the Irish teacher Ashling Murphy.
Around 60 youngsters from the Albert Einstein School (AES) will now be able to guide their classmates through an exhibition entitled “The Path of the Sinti and Roma”. They have been trained accordingly. The students are involved in a project called “School without Racism – School with Courage”.
The European Commission (EC) and the Council of Europe (CoE) are looking for 144 counselling service providers with specific expertise in inclusive education practices and policies for Roma children.
A recent study has shown the abysmal differences of living conditions of Roma in Settlements in comparison to the rest of the population. The settlements need water, schools, and a minimum of infrastructure and services.
A book written and concepted by Roma children aims at changing perceptions of Roma.
Although the municipality of Škocjan does not officially have an autochthonous Roma minority and thus no Roma councillor, there are more Roma there every year. More than three hundred Roma already live in two settlements in Dobruška. This means that in a municipality with about 3,400 inhabitants, about ten percent of the Roma population already has. The school already has a fifth or 20 percent of schoolchildren are Roma children.
The settlements have water, and the municipality installed chemical toilets.
Many Roma children and adolescents in Belgrade are forced to work. They do not go to school regularly, and cultural practices and sports activities are often beyond their reach. The (per)Spective project wants to open the doors of cinemas and museums to them.
The Vasilitsa Roma Festival project brings together the efforts of two artists who have proven themselves on the world stage – Bulgarian Roma and ethnic Bulgarians – for a valuable educational initiative and the creation of a highly artistic creative product, as well as for their presentation to the public.
There is a “Gypsy Musical Academy” in Italy, and no, it has nothing to do with Roma. It is a school for artists who want to go into musicals.
An article about a schoolteacher, teaching at a Roma school, who says schoolbooks need to be made more attractive. To make it easier for Roma children, she designed special workbooks with letters for dyslexics.
She definitively helps Roma in her school. Whether her approach is the right one remains to be seen.
International experts are discussing innovative education of Roma children in Bratislava.
An article n the Slovenian press on Roma stressing the need for education for Integration.
– Položaj Romov. In: Radio Prvi. 08.04.2019. https://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2019/03/studio-ob-17-ih-147/ [link-preview url=”https://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2019/03/studio-ob-17-ih-147/”]
A short article on a program helping young Roma in school in Galicia.
– Gitanos contra los prejuicios. In: La Opinion a Coruna. 18.03.2019. https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/sociedad/2019/03/18/gitanos-prejuicios/1384991.html [link-preview url=”https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/sociedad/2019/03/18/gitanos-prejuicios/1384991.html”]
Hungary is launching a new program of vocational training for Roma in agriculture. It is supposed to help Roma integration. Unfortunately, Hungary is also one of the leaders in terms of segregated schools at all educational levels, something that goes against integrations.
– Bentlakásos iskolákba terelnék a roma fiatalokat, hogy gazdálkodókat faragjanak belőlük. In: 24.hu. 14.03.2019. https://24.hu/belfold/2019/03/14/bentlakasos-iskola-roma-fiatalok-agroma/
– Agrár szakközépiskolai hálózattal vágnának bele a roma felzárkóztatásba. In: Index.hu. 14.03.2019. https://index.hu/belfold/2019/03/14/roma_ciganysag_felzarkoztatas_oktatas_agroma_program_vilagitotorony_mezogazdasag_szakkozepiskola/ [link-preview url=”https://24.hu/belfold/2019/03/14/bentlakasos-iskola-roma-fiatalok-agroma/ “]
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