Official title: A study visit of young Roma high school students to Auschwitz, the place where have been exterminated tens of thousands of Roma people
Duration: April – June 2024
Applicant: Vox Civica

Partners: Alexandru Marghiloman Cultural and Educational Center – Department of Buzău Municipality, financer of the project
                     Buzău Municipality

Target group: 25 young Roma high school students from the Simileasca neighbourhood, the biggest Roma community in Buzău County

The most important objectives of the project are the following:

• raising the share of Roma obtaining a health insurance
• improving the physical fitness and nutrition
• increasing the number of Roma making use of available cancer prevention measures
• raising the vaccination status of adult Roma
• decreasing the number of addicted Roma respectively of Roma who are threatened by addictions
• reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and the risk of venereal diseases
• improving the dental hygiene.

Here are, what are the main activities of our project

• establishing Community Health Centers in the Roma communities involved in the project;
• developing a Curriculum for the Training of the mediators who will work within Community Health Centers;
• training of the Health Mediators selected from the Roma Communities involved in the project;
• developing a Handbook, as a tool necessary for health mediator`s work;
• drafting a Roma Health Action Plan which will be assumed by the Municipalities by Local Council Decisions;
• multiplier events in each countries;
• hiring Health Mediators for the Roma communities targeted in the project.

The target – group of the project include Roma and non-Roma people, such as: 

• adult Roma people (beneficiaries, health mediators, multipliers, experts);
• trainers;
• relevant stakeholders;
  – municipalities;
  – adult education institutions;
  – roma Communities/Self-Governments, Roma NGO;
  – different NGO (sport, culture, nutrition etc.);
  – hospitals, medical institutions;
  – welfare organisations etc.

The main intellectual outputs developed within the project are:

IO1    Curriculum for the training of Health Mediators
IO2    Handbook for Health Mediators
IO3    Model Action Plan Health for local Roma communities including concept for the establishment of Community Health Centers
IO4    Concept for Mobility Projects (KA1)

Transnational project meetings:

1. Kick-off Meetings in Plauen, DE (October 2020
2. Partners Meeting in Sofia, BG (May 2021)
3. Partners Meeting in Halandri, GR (November 2021)
4. Partners Meeting in Kiskunhalas, HU (June 2022)
5. Partners Meeting in Buzau, RO (November 2022)
6. Final Meeting in Bitola, Northern Republic of Macedonia (July 2023)