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The Policy Center for Roma and Minorities team invites you to join our efforts to offer a better life to the children from the Ferentari area. We invite the friends and supporters of the organization to a Spring Dinner—a fundraising event to support the Alternative Education Club. The dinner and a music and dance show prepared for our guests will take place on Monday,
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Journalist Laura Oniță has released a short film on the seemingly insurmountable obstacles to positive growth and a good education that Roma children face in Romania. The extreme poverty, hunger, deprivation and racially-motivated, systemic prejudice experienced by Roma children daily prevent them from either entering the formal education system altogether or from performing well, graduating and moving on to the next levels. When they
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Policy Center for Roma and Minorities (PCRM) felicită pe cei 14 finaliști selecționați pentru participare la Debate House 2011-2012. Cei 13 profesori de gimnaziu și liceu și un învățător participă mâine, 2 ianuarie, la primul seminar pentru cadre didactice, pe tema diversității, care va fi condus de Roxana Marin. Seminarul le va oferi și o introducere la proiect, ca și șansa să viziteze Clubul
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To celebrate the accomplishments of a fruitful 2011, the Policy Center’s Alternative Education Club street dance and theater groups showed off their talent through two public performances at the end of December. With family members, friends, but also established artists, and high-ranking diplomats in attendance, the shows rewarded the children’s hard work while promoting a sense of solidarity that transcends race and ethnicity among
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The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) and the European Roma Policy Coalition (ERPC) have issued an open letter to M. Barroso, President of the European Commission, in an effort to raise greater awareness of the continued racism, discrimination and social exclusion experienced by the Romani people residing throughout Europe. Through this letter, the ERPC, of which ENAR is a member, calls on the College
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Perhaps many of the Center’s friends and followers sometimes wonder how our team and the children they work with through the Alternative Education Club (AEC) from school 136 in Ferentari have managed to orchestrate so many activities this past year. The answer is simple. Policy Center remains engaged through its various sports-related projects which go a long way to aide in the process of
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This month, Policy Center for Roma and Minorities is recruiting teachers for the third year of Debate House, a project that promotes multiculturalism, active citizenship and human and minority rights in Romania through the involvement of middle school and high school teachers and students in a series of seminars and debates during the 2011-2012 school year. Started in 2008 with support from the Open
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  Policy Center for Roma and Minorities is pleased to announce that the European Roma Policy Coalition’s (ERPC) Campaign for a European Union (EU) Roma Strategy, to which the Center is an active partner, has received the Best Campaign of the Year Award for 2011 through the prestigious European Public Affairs Awards (EPAA). After a long, arduous process of nomination which began in June,
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A celebration of civic implication and alternative education November 17. Children run up and down the stairs, impatient to finish the final repetition before the arrival of almost 200 guests. Many of them already met the kids while volunteering in the Alternative Education Club – people from embassies, ministries and other public institutions, as well as from NGOs and from the community in Ferentari.
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The second friendly football match” Love Football, No Racism, No Violence” organized by Policy Center for Roma and Minorities, The Romanian Football Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took place at the Romanian National Team training center at Mogosoaia -Bucharest. The match is part of a series of games which aims at raising awareness with regard to racism, discrimination and violence on football stadiums. We organised the first game on March 20th, on the occasion of the International Day for Racial Discrimination.
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