ROM-Boost: Roma Community Empowerment Workshop
The programme aims at the social and economic empowerment of Roma populations in Attica through intensive education and skills development.
Most Roma populations across the country remain excluded from the wider community, some without legal documents, living in inappropriate conditions, facing severe or extreme poverty, food insecurity, limited access to public services, low level of education, unemployment and under-representation in the public sphere. These problems reinforce a vicious circle of degradation and exclusion, which includes and sustains introversion, social inequalities and ultimately delinquency as a negative coping mechanism.
The project’s activities include intensive and targeted training of existing mediators and the wider community using the snowball method. The training consists of a basic, common core which includes preparation for the labor market and linking with potential employers and three (3) different directions, namely Health, Human Rights and Communications. These sessions will be accompanied by corresponding practical applications within the community, integrating the theoretical knowledge acquired during the training and turning it into practice.
