On the evening of March 21, 2017, Ramona Surlea stepped on the stage of Romanian Athenaeum to receive the title of “Social Worker of the Year to combat discrimination against minorities”, awarded at the National Gala of Excellence in Social Assistance. With a great deal of joy and emotions, Ramona has sent a strong message about the importance of giving trust and empowering people who belong to minorities, so that they will be inspired to become positive examples for their entire communities. Congratulations, Ramona! You are an example to us and we are proud to be your colleagues!
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In the face of migration crisis, European leaders are at a crossroads and can still chose the path to walk on. However, their responses and reactions haven’t been well aligned with true EU values that all EU member states have adhered to. Rather than seek to protect people fleeing brutal wars, persecution, human rights violations, instability and extreme poverty, EU institutions have become preoccupied with stopping people reaching Europe and trying to quickly expel those who do. Only last week, European Commission recommended locking up child migrants while they or their parents wait to see if they have been granted asylum. Not only is forcibly detaining children never in the child’s best interests, it is in breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – a set of laws protecting children that every EU nation has signed up to. EU member states and institutions can either let fear erode the fundamental values they so often preach about yet practice less and less, or they can truly embody the principles the EU was founded on almost 60 years ago. Over 160 NGOs (including Terre des hommes) demanded European leaders take the second option today (8 March) and called […]
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The Alternative Education Club is a project implemented by Policy Center for Roma and Minorities in the ghetto area of Ferentari, Bucharest. In its 7th year already, the project works on diverting the attention of Roma and non-Roma children/youth from a life of crime and drug consumption by keeping them focused on the positive implications of continuous learning. Ever since 2012, Policy Center combines non-formal education (i.e. football, street dance, drama, music) with remedial education (development of basic skills in reading, writing, math) and manages to keep children away from drugs and associated risks (prostitution, human trafficking, HIV and hepatitis), the more since, from its empirical observations in the field, some worrying trends can be identified on this matter: – 1 in 2 children has a member of the family or an acquaintance addicted to drugs; – all the children are constantly exposed to used syringes on the streets of the ghetto; – all the children interact on a daily basis with a drug addict (encounters on the streets or in the buildings they live in); – drug use can start as early as 8 years old, but the most common period is between 12 and 16 which overlaps with […]
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In 2017, the Foundation Agency for Community Development “Together”, as partner in the zefiR consortium, organizes a series of meetings at county level in order to strengthen local/regional partnerships and to manage with increased efficiency and productivity problems of Roma communities. First meetings of such kind already took place in Targu Jiu (January 30, 2017), in Craiova (January 31, 2017) and Slatina (February 1, 2017). Read more on www.zefirincomunitate.ro, click here for direct link.
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