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GIFT & The Voice- the Voice of the Initiative Group of the Young Women from Braesti locality, Buzau County ”is the initiative of the Center for Advocacy and Human Rights and the Buzau Community Development Agency to empower young women to become agents of change for Roma and non-Roma women, but also of the whole community through advocacy actions and influence of the political and decision to consider the voice of the community and women in establishing and implementing development measures regarding the Braesti community. The project provides women with a platform to react by establishing the GIFT- a Young Women Initiative Group which will benefit from capacity building programme in advocacy actions on community development. This intervention mechanism is proposed to meet the needs of a hard-to-reach community, with a mixed population, residentially segregated, facing economic difficulties, with families living on the edge of poverty, without jobs, high dropout rates, especially of Roma girls who drop out of school due to pregnancies or early marriages; lack of specialized medical access, lack of involvement of young Roma women in the decision-making. Thus, the project proposes a combined package of interventions to strengthen the skills of influencing young women, and providing services in the field of education and health for children and women, such as remedial activities for 80 pupils, organizing intercultural events for 240 students and 60 Roma and non-Roma parents, medical services for 250 members of extended communities, out of which at least 100 women. Through GIFT, all these initiatives will play an essential role and contribution to unify the community of Braesti and combating the isolation of the Roma population, as well as in reducing the differences between this vulnerable group and the majority.