Empower to Grow, Using Community Organizing and Advocacy Methods to Empower Disadvantaged Communities in Central Slovakia

Project facts

Project promoter:
Centrum komunitného organizovania(SK)
Project Number:
SK-LOCALDEV-0019
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€173,970
Other Project Partners
Hope for children
c.a.(SK)
Šukar – Dživipen
n.o.(SK)

Description

Community organizing shall be an effective tool for bringing citizens together, empowering, helping, and connecting them. It concerns activities such as, creating leadership structures, defining problematic issues, and organizing campaigns towards positive changes within communities. Unfortunately, this method only works in communities "ready to be organized" and might be challenging for vulnerable groups/communities while lacking basic needs or skills. The project aims to support the community organizing in 6 Roma communities (Slovenská Ľupča, Skalica, Banská Bystrica - Cementárenská, Banská Bystrica - Hrb, Banská Štiavnica - Šobov and Banská Štiavnica - Povrazník) where the promoter has been active for the last 2-5 years. The project shall also provide support in other topics, such as community development, advocacy, public campaigns, and education. This project offers systematic solutions for significant problems such as housing, education, health and discrimination, advocacy, and education level. In direct effort, it shall empower 6 Roma communities - around 1 000 Roma people. Additionally, the project shall include also depolarizing approach towards the general public. The main goal of the partners will be to support the project activities through direct involvement in the community development.

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