Report

MAC 029
National Roma Centrum
Campaign for Roma education

Preparation period

The National Roma Centrum began with realization of the project in February 2007. During the first two months were the preparations for the planned activities, with which we created foundations for their successful realization. Keep reading…

Foreword

In thousands of languages, in the most diverse climes, from century to century, beginning with the very old stories told around the hearth in the huts of our remote ancestors down to the works of modern storytellers which are appearing at this moment in the publishing houses of the great cities of the world, it is the story of the human condition that is being spun and that men never weary of telling to one another. The manner of telling and the form of the story vary according to periods and circumstances, Keep reading…

National Roma Centrum – Kumanovo

Campaign for Roma education (Mobilization of the Roma parents to send children in mainstream schools) – continuing

Evaluation report

2006

Introduction

Guided from the precondition that education is a key for opening of the doors towards better life, the National Roma Centrum in the period January – October 2006 has realized the project Campaign for Roma education (Mobilization of the Roma parents to send children in mainstream schools), with financial support of the Roma Education Fund.

The condition of the Roma in education is reason – consequential relationships where on each side of the triangle are the parents, school and government institutions. But the most important side is the one of the parents. It depends on them whether the children will be included in the educational process and how successful will this be. That is why the most important work of the NRC in the campaign was to work with the parents. Keep reading…

National Roma Centrum Kumanovo

Free legal aid

Narrative report

01.January 2006 – 31.October 2006

Activities were realized by:

• Asmet Elezovski – coordinator
• Nikola Dzimrevski – legal adviser
• Katerina Spasevska – legal adviser
• Ljatif Demirovski – assistant Keep reading…

On the behalf of the seventh week of fighting against racism in European football, the National Roma Centrum with support of the FARE network and the municipality of Kumanovo, on the 28th of October organized a football tournament on which 4 teams participated from Macedonian, Roma and Albanian nationality. The event began with a parade through the city where the teams walked through the city with banners and under the motto “The game is the same for all”. The parade ended in front of the Sports Hall Keep reading…

The activities of the project point out the importance of health services for the Roma women in order to turn to the much needed research and studies within this sector, a process based on human rights for identifying of the specific situation of the Roma women. According to this, NRC’s goals are to contribute and ensuring that all necessary and provisions will reflect the real needs of the Roma women, than generalization and assumptions which do not express enough the health status of the Roma women. Health protection remains an issue of great importance for the Roma women, thus analyses of the health protection status represents a key for moving towards improvement and change of policies and practices. The Roma women are in a “double Keep reading…

Electoral campaign

General preparation activities

National Roma Centrum (NRC) as non-governmental organization dealing with Roma issues, striving for active participation and integration of the Roma in the society and protection of the rights of every citizen actively was involved in campaign for the Parliamentary elections in Macedonia 2006. Our efforts to better the situation of Roma are focused on education and motivating Roma to increase the level of participation in the educational system and all forms of civil participation of Roma in the society. Starting from January 2006 we were working on the preparations for the project to be carried out as planned. Keep reading…

The key is in your hands Campaign activities January – May 2006

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INTRODUCTION

Education is the main precondition for resolving of the other problems that are burdening the modern living, such as the unemployment, the low standard of living, protection of the human and minority rights, better social integration, coping with various forms of violence. The reality of Roma people in Macedonia is widening to early leaving of the primary school, parallel educational system in private flats, impossibility to enrol at a university, non-engagement of the Roma intellectuals, poverty, unemployment and rejection of the society. According to the data of the State Bureau of Statistics out of 7.868 Roma that had enrolled at school, only Keep reading…