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The project aims to improve living and educational conditions in disadvantaged communities with a high percentage of Roma population in Gornești commune, Mureș county by:
- provision of legal assistance to clarify the situation and housing rights for a number of 160 households in the villages of Gornești, Petrilaca de Mureș, and Periș (approximately 630 Roma);
- providing support in obtaining identity documents for 30 Roma persons;
- providing support for 56 Roma children from the village of Petrilaca de Mureș (eg., cultural and sports activities etc.) to encourage school enrollment/re-enrollment and school participation and preventing school dropout;
- developing Roma empowerment actions for 20 Roma women and young people from the village of Petrilaca de Mureș;
- small-scale investments in the renovation and improvement of the conditions in the spaces where the educational activities are carried out (the school from Petrilaca de Mureș village where over 93% of children are Roma).
Both the investment in school infrastructure, as well as education actions and actions in the legal field/identity and property documents will bring concrete benefits for the Roma community, contributing to the process of social inclusion of the Roma in this community.