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The project responds to multiple challenges concerning the inclusion of Roma communities into society and aims to remove the obstacles that are constantly slowing the process down. The project offers activities that address crucial areas such as health, education, employment, anti-discrimination, and housing. These activities aim at the social workers with Roma families applying a new approach (Pathway of Hope) that is already successfully implemented by the partner of the project, the Salvation Army in Norway. The partner´s role is supervising and tutoring while the new approach is being implemented into the social services in the community centres in Pezinok and Plavecký Štvrtok. Moreover, the project aims also to register an Integrative Social Enterprise, that will be established in the second half of the project implementation. Such initiative helps people who have never worked before or for a long period of time. It helps them to acquire work habits or to gain qualification skills in a particular field as a bridge to employment. The project addresses the following cross-cutting issues, the project respects the principles of gender equality and the improvement of the position of women in a society at all stages. Project activities are mostly focused on uplifting the living conditions of Roma women and increasing their self-esteem. The main goal of the project is to deteriorate barriers that constrain the process of Roma inclusion and their empowerment in society. All activities in the project also include the social inclusion of people other than Roma as the project is based on the principle of non-discrimination. The goal is to break down the barriers between Roma and the majority and deliver equal opportunities for all, without any restrictions. The transparency and anti-corruption principles are respected in the entire project implementation process duly presented on the promoter''s website, including the public procurement and contracts.