Provide Education for Talented Roma Children

During 2017 we organised a lot of events that were completely new for our organisation. We loaded successfully project of Young Roma leaders on elementary schools in all region of Slovakia. We absolved meetings with children and youth from Zdana, Spišský Štvrtok, Zborov and Velké Leváre. Our Young Roma leaders presented here their achievements that reached despite they had to face a lot of obstacles on their way. They tried to motivate children to study and not to give up their dreams. Young leaders also prepared some workshops and they worked in small groups of children. All of the events on elementary schools ended up with a lot of positive response not only from kids, but also from the teachers. Our work on schools continues also in 2018. We had planned visiting 5 schools, from which 3 are in new region of Slovakia – Svit, Huncovcem Terna and thanks to great responses we are going to repeat the visit in elementary school in Zdana and Spišský Štvrtok.

This year we also organised an international exchange during the summer holidays, in which took part 5 countries – Hungary, Bulgaria, Norway, Lithuania and Slovakia. It was an unforgettable experience for all of our young members from Dive maky, most of who had the opportunity to speak in English language and be part of a multicultural area for the very first time. It helped them to expand their point of view, to lose the language barriers and to achieve a better selfconfidence.

 Especially successfull was a visit of Young Roma leaders in Strasbourg , where we could meet with a lot of policies important on European level. We also visited European parliament, Council of Europe, European Youth Centre and the others. Young leaders engaged in a lot of discussion meetings, where they presented our work in Slovakia and could achieve a lot of information about studies and internships in Strasbourg. This visit was a great addition to all concerned. It opened them a new possibilities  and showed them, that also young Roma people can affect on a European political level between the youngsters.

Thanks to you, our great sponsors and supporters we can organise a lot of events for these children and youth every year. There they can work on improving their talents, skills and personalities. We can also organise small trips, train our mentors (who are the second parents of our children) and also deal with unexpected expenses and hard life situations of our children, that unfortunately sometimes occurs. 

Thanks to your support and your donations via GlobalGiving we change lives of talented Roma children who need it the most. We would be very pleased if you became our donor and support our activities. With your help we can create new generation of Roma- educated, hardworking, confident and proud.

We thank you very much from the bottom of our hearts for your support :-)

Yours  Divé maky