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The project aims at improving social inclusion and empowerment of the Roma community in the Municipality of Pernik. The project will improve the access of the Roma community and other vulnerable groups to social services, education, employment, health and non-discrimination and is based on the active participation of the Roma community and cooperation between local authorities, civil society and others stakeholders. The main target group of the project is Roma minorities and people from other vulnerable groups living in segregated communities, with difficult access to services, inadequate infrastructure, facing extreme poverty, social exclusion and marginalization. The project will develop activities in several main areas, including the introduction of a comprehensive approach aimed at improving the general conditions of the target group, where the same person is provided with at least two types of services from the following sectors: social assistance, education, employment and healthcare, depending on their needs. Under the project two buildings will be renovated and will be ensured mobile provision of complex health, social, educational and employment activities to the most vulnerable members of the roma community. For the successful implementation of the project, an effective partnership is envisaged with a local NGO from Bulgaria, which works in the field of Roma social inclusion and it is well known and accepted by the community, as well as in partnership with non-governmental organization from Norway Intermezzo Ungdom that works in the field of social inclusion of young people.