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Despite the improvement of the conditions for equal access of Roma children to education, we are still facing dropouts of Roma pupils from the education system. Socioeconomic background and family can also influence the educational aspirations of the pupil, which has been confirmed by many pieces of research carried out in the Czech Republic.
The most common cause of this fact is the low motivation of families caused by their way of thinking and lack of communication of parents with the school.
Our project focuses on empowering Roma families using the proven methodology of community organization developed during our campaigns for enrolment of Roma children in non-segregated schools.
Our goal is to empower parents to such an extent that they become active in the education process, motivate their children and become full-fledged partners of the school. By introducing the principles of effective communication between Roma parents and the school, we will limit the barriers standing in the way of a Roma child to higher education. In addition, we will work with Roma children in the second grade of elementary schools on information, motivation and ethno-emancipation.
One of the activities, the suburban camps, will build a positive relationship with the school, introduce pupils to several positive role models from successfully educated Roma, and educate Roma pupils in the field of Roma history, culture, language and strengthen their "Romipen".
We have many years of experience in organizing Roma parents, while the partner Roma organization CENTRUM SPOLECNEHO ZAJMU z.s. is experienced in the field of organizing extracurricular activities and summer camps. Our valuable partners are three schools, where we will solve the problem of insufficient communication with parents and dropouts of Roma children from primary education. The result of our work will be a methodology for communication between the school and Roma parents.