Description
The project is necessary to improve the level of education for children and young Roma and non-Roma in five rural interethnic communities of Prahova County but also citizen participation in community life and educational act. The overall objective is to improve the level of education for children and youth from five rural interethnic communities of Prahova County The specific objectives are: 1) Ensuring the participation to remedial education activities 500 Roma students and non Roma from five rural interethnic communities of Prahova County during a period of 10 months. 2) Improving the participation in of the educational act minimum of 200 Roma parents and nonRoma from five rural interethnic communities of Prahova County during a period of 10 months. 3) Development of 5 local support groups for education inside of five rural interethnic communities of Prahova County during a period of 10 months. 4) Creation of a network of 10 school mediators for five rural interethnic communities during a period of 6 months.
Summary of project results
The project was implemented in the communities of Ciupelniţa, Plopeni-Sat, Mărginenii de Jos, Şotrile, Vărbila (Prahova County) in order to improve the education levels among children, young Roma and non Roma, but also to increase citizens' involvement in the educational act and in their community as a whole. Low levels of education among students and young adults from these communities has a number of negative effects, such as social exclusion, a higher unemployment rate, generalised poverty, self-marginalization and low level of access to information that leads to a more difficult personal and professional development. The project tackled this problem and found solutions that were achieved through a range of remedial education activities (including "School after school"), vocational qualification for school mediators and hiring new teachers in these communities, activities for parents to motivate school attendance and creating local support groups. Project's main achievements in the five communities during the implementation period where: 1) Ensuring the participation to remedial education activities for 500 students, roma and non-roma; 2) Improving the participation in the educational act of 200 parents, roma and non-roma; 3) Development of 5 local educational support groups; 4) Creation of a network of 10 school mediators.
Summary of bilateral results