The project aims to educate Roma women in human rights, empower the implementing agency through training sessions in Athens and Drama, address anti-gayism, exchange know-how and good practices with a foreign agency (Way Out), and produce a report on human rights violations to be submitted to the Ombudsman and the EHRC. Additionally, the implementing agency will conduct weekly interventions in the two camps (Filippou and Abelokipi in Drama) to provide information to the women.
Target groups:
The beneficiaries of the project are 30 Roma women aged 15-29 (NEETs) years old in Filippou and Abelokipi camps.
Activities:
- Supported 45 Roma women through 47 educational workshops, promoting literacy, social inclusion, and empowerment.
- Helped 5 women obtain primary school diplomas and supported 2 in continuing to secondary education.
- Encouraged entrepreneurship: 1 woman opened a clothing store, another plans to run for local office, and 1 secured steady employment.
- Produced educational tools, including cards, podcasts, 5 regional brochures, a best practices manual, and a public awareness video.
- Organized advocacy actions: submitted a human rights report, created graffiti for visibility, sent advocacy letters, and held media campaigns against anti-Gypsyism.
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