Provide Education for Talented Roma Children

This year we decided to organise Youth exchange for the very first time. The members of the exchange group will be young people from social disadvanteged areas from Slovakia and 4 other countries, which are Hungary, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Norway. 

The biggest challange of this project is the fact, that it is whole organised by youngsters coordinated by their support team from each country. It is a great experience for them, where they can learn how to work in teams and how to be a part of a coordinating group, that creates independently bases for each exchange activity.

Through learning mobility we want to encourage their participation in democratic life in Europe and the labor market, promote their language skills, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity. The common element that unites all young people in this project is that everyone is involved in advocacy, activation or volunteer activities in their communities, and as the main working and communication tool  is used their talent and art. Several participants of the project are Roma and youth from socially disadvantaged environment or people with fewer opportunities who have never had the opportunity to travel outside the borders of their state.

 The Slovak group is attended by 10 youth from the Roma communities who have never been abroad and have no contact with youth from abroad or information about other European cultures. This group is mandated to coordinate and plan the whole international youth exchange. Since they have no experience with such activity with support  and help of project team will they learn how to organize such activity  and they will also learn to communicate with foreign partners in English. In total from 41 youth participants are 29 of all youth with fewer opportunities. Most of them come from Roma communities or other socially disadvantaged backgrounds. 

Now our Slovakian group of youngsters had a skype call with the other members of youth exchange, where they settled a several details and created a base for further cooperation. They have also created a facebook group, that all the participants are members and they post every time in a while status or a video about what they have achieved or what is the next step to do. 

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, o.z.

Links:

• http://divemaky.sk/