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In 2017 Ladies Union of Drama – House of Open Hospitality acquired mobile school, after forming collaboration with Belgian NPO Mobile School. The mobile school is an extendable blackboard on wheels that comes with more than 300 educational panels ranging from literacy to street business, to health, hygiene and diversity. From 1,5m length it can develop until 6m length, while it weights 150 kg. The educational panels can be easily attached on the mobile blackboard with plastic screws before being taken to the streets for non-formal and educational sessions. The mobile school targets Roma children who live and work on the streets, without attending schools or have a high risk of dropping out. In addition, the project targets illiterate Roma adults in need of counselling. Living on the street and child labour is unacceptably high among Roma in Greece comparison to the majority population. The high number of school drop-out rates and segregation in education is fuelled by anigypsyst sentiment in society and causes the marginalisation of Roma communities. Through interventions on the streets the project provides education about hygiene, sex etc. with the focus on increasing self-empowerment and skills development. Further, it aims to encourage and prepare Roma children for integration into the broader school community and society. The target group of the proposed program is pre-school and school-age children Roma, young and adult Roma residing in the counties of Drama, Kavala & Xanthi.L.U.D. – H.O.O.H. owns the mobile school and a specially designed van for its transportation and has the necessary know-how and experience, as it has been successfully implementing interventions in Roma camps in the city of Drama for two and a half years. Therefore, the proposed three-year program will be carried out entirely by the organization.