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I AM ROMA

I AM ROMA. Belfast Inclusion Project GOAL: To promote social inclusion and address issues of discrimination faced by the Roma community through partnership working to cultivate positive changes in outlook about Roma in Belfast. . "The Belfast Context",. A Divided City.

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I AM ROMA

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  1. I AM ROMA Belfast Inclusion Project GOAL: To promote social inclusion and address issues of discrimination faced by the Roma community through partnership working to cultivate positive changes in outlook about Roma in Belfast.

  2. "The Belfast Context", • A Divided City

  3. "The Roma experience",

  4. What do we know? • The truth is that initially we knew very little about the Roma in Belfast • Perceptions based on negative media reports • Roma are (understandably) an insular community • Like all communities they have their gate keepers

  5. Relationships & Trust

  6. The Plan • To raise awareness of Roma language, culture and traditions and challenge perceptions and stereotyping of Roma • To begin to build the capacity of staff in public, voluntary and community organisations to engage with the Roma

  7. Capacity Building with the Roma • To establish a social economy programme for Roma women • To promote the inclusion of Roma youth with local communities

  8. Progress

  9. Challenges A group of Romanians who sell newspapers on the streets of Belfast are to appear in court after police seized £24,000 in an anti-crime probe. "You can't walk into a bank or shop on this road without a Romanian woman shoving a copy of the Big Issue under your nose or begging you for money. I don't mind the Poles and the Slovakians who come here. They work hard, harder than indigenous people from here, but all you see now are these Romanians begging and mooching about. We'd all be better off - them and us - if they went back to Romania or somewhere else in Europe,"

  10. Prospects

  11. Thank YouSandra McCarrySorina TomaStephen Longfor info contactstephen.long@belfasttrust.hscni.net

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