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Description
The project is aimed at helping Roma children and young people, who are not guided by their parents to the importance of education, meaningful use of free time and sports. Through peer groups, it helps them with education, provides space for personal development, the development of manual skills, social contacts, self-motivation, breaking down prejudices and taking responsibility for their behavior and discovering their benefits for others. The project focuses on helping in a Roma community in Luník IX in Košice, suffering from high crime and high, multi-generational, unemployment. The project will involve 100 residents of the housing estate belonging to the vulnerable group.
The project partners are the Salesians of Don Bosco in Košice, who have been working in the Lunik IX housing estate since 2008, and have been cooperating with a civic association for a long time. The partner provides the civic association Ohen nadeje with premises for activities, and helps in terms of personnel and finances.
Summary of project results
The project focused on helping Roma children and youth from Lunik9 in Košice, who come from socially weaker families where they generally do not realize the need for education. Main activities in the project:
- online education (they do not have access to a computer and the Internet at home) and tutoring with assistance on the premises of our centre;
- creating a safe environment for games and developing social skills;
- trips to places visited mainly by the majority (downtown, cinema, nature, aquapark) and joint activities with youth from the majority;
- involving motivated children and young people in mentoring, in which we help them choose a school, prepare for job interviews and tutoring during their studies;
- creation of peer groups, networking, breaking down prejudices;
- realization of a suburban camp.
About 100 children and young Roma were to take part in the activities. During the lockdown, the interest in tutoring and online education increased greatly and 155 Roma took part in the activities. None of the participating pupils and students who took part in the tutoring repeated the year at the school. We also have a public laundry in our building, where people from Lunik9 can have their laundry done. Approximately 320 Roma benefited from this service during the project.