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Roma Girls Education
Initiative |
 CARE
Serbia office and the Novi Sad Humanitarian Centre (NSHC)
are implementing the project ''Roma Girls Education
Initiative'' with the support of Telethon Fund (CARE
Norway).
The project builds on the results of a successfully
completed pilot project "Chances and Choices for Roma
Girls", which lasted from September 2008 to May 2010.
The Initiative aims to raise awareness about the importance
of girls' education in the Roma community, to build skills
and confidence of Roma girls, and to advocate for greater
support to education of Roma women at local, provincial and
national authorities.
Roma women are the least educated women in Serbia, with the
highest percentage of illiteracy: it was estimated that 80%
of Roma women are formally illiterate, with the upper limit
of four grades of primary school completed, without any
qualifications. In most cases, Roma women do not decide
freely on their education. Significant number of Roma girls
enrolled in primary school drop out in early puberty, in
order to get married and take care of children and
household.
The project provides education and counseling support for
two groups of young Roma and non-Roma people in Novi Sad and
Becej. They will prepare and perform ten forum theater
performance on education of Roma women. In addition to this,
a number of activities with Roma communities are planned, as
well as intense advocacy activities for the rights of Roma
women to education.
The project is being implemented from 1 December 2010 to 30
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8 April
2011
Roundtable
in Becej:
“Education
of Roma girls - Opportunities and Challenges“ |
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On the occasion of
8
April,
International Roma Day,
NSHC
and
CARE Serbia togehter with the municipality of Becej and the
board of school directors have organized a round
table titled
"Education
of Roma
girls
-
Opportunities and Challenges".
The participants
were
principals,
psychologists
and
pedagogues
of primary and
secondary
schools
and
representatives
of the municipality and of
a
preschool institution.
The aim of
the roundtable
was to
exchange
information
about
school attendance
when
it comes to
Roma
children,
mainly
girls.
The results of
the survey "Situation
Analysis of
Education
and
Social
Inclusion
of Roma
Girls
in
Serbia"
conducted
in
Novi
Sad,
Nis
and
Kraljevo
were presented.
The participants also
discussed
the right
to
education
and
the issue of discrimination in education,
especially
when Roma children are
concerned.
The participants
presented their
data on the
situation
in
schools
regarding the
attendance
and
enrollment of Roma children
in school.
 After
discussion,
the
conclusions
and
recommendations
for
future
work
were adopted; some of them are:
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engaging
pedagogical
assistants
in schools
contributes
to
improved
access to
education
in
primary
schools with a
higher
number
of Roma students,
-
scholarships for Roma
students
by
the
Provincial Department of Education remains as an example of
good
practice
that should further be provided;
-
greater
coverage
and
earlier
enrollment of Roma
children in
kindergartens should be further encouraged;
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It is necessary to
keep track of
the regularity
of school attendance
of Roma
pupils;
-
work
with
Roma
parents
to
recognize
the importance of
education
and
regularly
enroll their
children to
school should be continued.
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NOVI SAD
HUMANITARIAN CENTER 2004 - 2011 |
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