Description
The Romanian Roma population faces serious educational problems across the country. In the region of Center, 12% of school age children leave school before graduating, and about 18% of them are not enrolled or attending school at all. Limited numbers of qualified teachers and inadequate educational infrastructure contribute to this situation. The main objective of the project is to improve the situation of Roma children who are at risk, in 15 localities within Brasov County. The project will facilitate the pychological, intellectual and physical development of 750 Roma children (aged 6-15 years) trough additional support for school activities, competitions, camps, knowledge and personal development and health education. A resource centre will also be established for school mediators, teachers and specialists in the field of education and social inclusion in Brasov. The project will include an information campaign on the importance of prevention of school dropouts for 500 members of the communities.
Summary of project results
The project was developed on two directions with a common purpose to improve the situation of the children at risk from 15 communities from Brașov County. First the Project Promoter prepared the personal by setting up a resource center for scholar mediators, teachers and other specialists and second by working directly with the beneficiaries, children at risk and their parents. Therefore, within the resource center developed during the project, PP organized a training course in the field of scholar mediator for 15 specialists and a non-formal course for 15 local implementation experts and for those 15 mediators. The 30 specialists from those 15 schools worked directly with the beneficiaries of the project, 1361 Roma children and 525 parents. Children from 7th and 8th grades were involved in remedial activities in order to prepare for the national exams. All the children (1361) were involved in non-formal activities developed by the partner, Transilvania Express, such as personal development activities, contests, Roma culture education, excellence camp, summer school, developing the sense of community, cross-cultural activities and school dropout caravan and so on. County Police Inspectorate Brașov organized a campaign called ”30 day of non-violence” and caravan in the project area, where 891 beneficiaries where informed about prevention and fighting violence in schools. Also, in order to improve parents’ relationship with school specialists and to raise awareness about children’s education among them, there were non-formal activities special design for them, gather under the name “Parent’s school”. During the project’s implementation, Project Promoter realized two studies, an impact study and study that evaluated the visibility of the project and designed different types of printed materials (brochure, leaflets and flyers) that were disseminated during the caravans, conferences, campaign and so on.
Summary of bilateral results