Xarxa Romnia

In 2019, exceptionally, two courses of monitors have been held, one in Trinitat Nova and the other in Terrassa.

The women participants are already at the end of the course, completing their internship memories to send them in the next months.

This course offers a formal qualification, which allows participants to enter the labor market in non-formal education areas. One of the main objectives of the course is to make Romani women visible in these spaces, where they have not traditionally been represented, as role models for children and their families.

Within the course, three sessions have been organized on prevention of gender violence, preventive socialization, and 0 violence from 0 years old.

Thanks to the collaborators and specialists in the field who have voluntarily carried out these sessions.

In Drom Kotar Mestipen we carry out different types of activities. On the one hand, we have specific activities that can be considered as structural of the association, which are organized regularly and have emerged as the core of the association. On the other hand, we have activities developed through the participation in projects at local, national and European level that allow us to continue with our lines of work, especially the promotion of the education of Roma adult women and the accreditation of the non-formal competences of Roma women with the aim of promoting their inclusion in the labor market.

The main activities organized by our association:

1. Roma Women Students Gatherings of Catalonia.
We have held 17 editions of this Gathering, with more than 205-300 women participating in the last editions. This is a space for dialogue; an annual or biannual meeting where Roma students and women meet to discuss and reflect on their education as a way to overcome the inequalities suffered by Roma women.

2. Course ofmonitors of leisure activities for children and young people.
This course is accredited by the General Directorate of Youth of the Generalitat de Catalunya and is carried out for Roma women. It is free of charge and aims at the labor inclusion of Roma women without academic qualifications. In addition, it allows Roma students to have them as role models within their own schools.

3. International Congresses of Roma Women
In its first edition, grassroots Roma women from more than 15 countries discussed how to overcoming the triple exclusion they suffer and laid the foundations for the implementation of international actions and projects to overcoming it. At the same time, we are working hand in hand with a network of European entities, in the celebration next in 2018 of the II International Congress.; in which grassroots Roma women will return to debate and decide on the issues that most interest and concern them today.

This is one of the most successful activities of Drom Kotar Mestipen: the Roma Women Students Gatherings (girls and women of different ages).

A space that was created with the purpose of discussing the issues previously proposed by the local organisers and the member associations, with the ultimate goal of finding solutions around school drop-out and truancy of young Roma girls.

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