Snina - a city of equal opportunities for all

Project facts

Project promoter:
City of Snina(SK)
Project Number:
SK-LOCALDEV-0010
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€994,662
Donor Project Partners:
Salvation Army Norway(NO)
Other Project Partners
Salvation Army in Slovakia(SK)
Ternipen Roma Centre(SK)
Ulič municipality(SK)

Description

The aim of the project is to increase opportunities for skills, talent, sport and personal development, to raise the level of education and thus to eliminate poverty. As well as increasing financial illiteracy, preventing the emergence of socio-pathological phenomena and adverse conditions in the field of hygiene and health. The aim of the measure is to support inclusion in the educational process, to improve teaching through teaching assistants, promoting equal access to quality education and improving student outcomes and competencies, including marginalised Roma community (MRC). Project partners cooperation will include improving the position of vulnerable and Roma children and young people in cooperation with schools, staff of the Low-Threshold Service for Children and Families in Snina (NSSDR), Healthy Regions and other organizations in the Snina district, as well as paediatricians, foundations, charities and state institutions . Following ensuring better access to education through the "Omama" project in all 6 kindergartens in the city, cooperation with primary schools and vocational schools. Women called "Omamas" come directly from excluded communities, they know the situation, people, mother tongue, they can give parents the right arguments they understand. Lastly, reducing unemployment by creating jobs in the Municipal Enterprise Snina - a registered integrated social enterprise.

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