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Roma people from disadvantaged communities in the town of Balș (Macului Street, Cuza Vodă Street and Nicolae Titulescu Street) are confronted with problems related to poor living conditions, lack of property and/or identity documents, high level of school dropout, as well as reduced access to social and medical services. The project aims to improve the access to services and education conditions by implementing integrated measures oriented to the needs of these people. The specific objectives of the project are:
- Increasing the capacity of 15 specialists and volunteers from the fields of education, health, employment, social services, public administration, the NGO sector, etc. involved in the provision of services to Roma people;
- Increasing the access and quality of services for 155 Roma people in situations of vulnerability, at risk or facing various forms of social exclusion.
The target groups are made up of: 205 Roma people (of which 30 children, 50 parents) and 15 specialists and volunteers who will be trained in working with Roma people.
Activities include: training of 15 volunteers/specialists as social mediators; assisting 10 Roma people in obtaining identity documents; supporting 30 primary school children at risk of dropping out of school through an after school program (remedial education, extracurricular and recreational activities); counselling and parenting education for 50 parents; providing medical services for 115 Roma people (screening and medical analyses, organization of 6 information campaigns on health education).