Description
In eastern Slovakia, relationships between minorities and Slovaks suffer from prejudice, bad will and various minorities are considered „unequal” to the rest. Our objective is to improve relationships between these groups and the balance between ethnic minorities (in this case the Roma minority) and Slovaks. We will achieve this by increasing the cultural awareness of students and the general public. The next objective is to lower any cultural or ethnical imbalances and to increase mutual toleration in the population. The result of this project is going to be teaching of a new school subject, Roma customs, in ZŠ Nižná Polianka, and launching a web page written in Slovak, English and partially in Romani. Events will be organized to encourage new relationships and to bring the ethnic groups together. Target groups are mainly children, youth, ethnic minorities and employees of public administrations.The project will join mayors, school principals, village councils and various organizations together to organize various activities. This will result in a higher quality of cohabitation, and will create a basis for future partnerships and common interests.
Summary of project results
The overall implementation of the project was very positive, as the realized activities significantly contributed to improving relations minority and majority not only in the comunity of primary school pupils, but especially between parents and citizens. Within the school activities has been significant progress in national integrity, which is mainly due to the inclusion of teaching the Roma realities in educational process. Noticeable was the increase of cooperation between the children at the leisure time when the children from different communities were purposefully searched each others for a common purpose of spending the leisure time together. It was very interesting to observe the intersection of culture, dancing and singing when children have been acquainted with Roma songs and dances.
Summary of bilateral results