Mission 1000

Project facts

Project promoter:
Association for Culture, Education and Communication (ACEC)(SK)
Project Number:
SK-LOCALDEV-0021
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€273,958
Donor Project Partners:
Norsensus Mediaforum(NO)
Other Project Partners
Femina Spiš.o.z(SK)
Hospital with polyclinic Spišská Nová Ves
a.s.(SK)

Description

The health status of Roma is significantly low, as confirmed by the data, the average life expectancy of Roma is on average six years shorter than that of the non-Roma population. The infant mortality rate is on average three times higher among Roma children. Moreover, Slovakia generally faces significant challenges in ensuring enough health professionals per capita, which has an adverse impact on the most vulnerable groups. Sufficient health and social support for women before and during pregnancy, and after childbirth, is often absent in marginalized Roma communities (MRC). Project builds on two decades of successful development of health mediation, fieldwork in the MRC, and ongoing volunteers’ project. The project is centered on health mediation in the environment of socially disadvantaged communities, which focuses on the first key 1000 days from the conception of the child. Community capacity provides all care programme for pregnant women, during and after their stay in the maternity ward, and strengthens their mutual relationships among communities. Interventions, both at home and in the hospital, shall be carried out by Babice – Roma women health mediators. Another key part of the project is communication advocacy and outreach to the general public. Project partners will provide expertise in advocacy campaigning preparation as well as support to strategic communication design and implementation and mutual exchange of know- how.

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