June 1 came, as in previous years, with maximum fun. This time, the International Children’s Day Celebration moved from the streets indoors, where Policy Center for Roma and Minorities and Terre des hommes organized sports activities and games for 220 children. Schools no. 73, 136 and 148 from Ferentari hosted
Twenty eight years exactly since the first resolution on Roma was passed by the European Parliament, the EU is finally publishing its Framework Strategy on Roma. But is there any progress to report? On 24 May 1984 the European Parliament passed resolution C172/153, which acknowledged that “gypsies still suffer discrimination
To celebrate the accomplishments of a fruitful 2011, the Policy Center’s Alternative Education Club street dance and theater groups showed off their talent through two public performances at the end of December. With family members, friends, but also established artists, and high-ranking diplomats in attendance, the shows rewarded the children’s
Aproximately 65% of the students at School no. 136 in Bucharest’s Ferentari area, live in ghettoes which are defined by a high occurrence of domestic violence, prostitution, beggary, drug dealing and a generalized resistence towards school and education.
In June 2009, Ovidiu Rom launched the “Şcoala te face mare” (“School makes you ‘big’”) national campaign to make citizens aware of their rights and responsibilities regarding education and to offer parents a way to request information and report problems they face in sending their children to school.
Loading ...