INTERSECT – Intersectional Community Centre
”EasyEco” Association ·Romania
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify">The problem addressed by our project is the perpetuation of social exclusion in the multiple discriminated communities (economically, ethnically, based on age, gender, sexual orientation and disability) from disadvantaged urban areas in Bucharest. The project brings added value from an INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE by establishing an intersectional community center, to address the phenomenon of social exclusion, its multiple forms, as well as the processes of reproduction of social inequalities that maintain the identified problem. The AIM is to increase the inclusion and empowerment of vulnerable groups (young people, Roma, LGBTI, women, unemployed, people with disabilities or at risk of poverty) who face multiple discrimination in enclaves with disadvantaged communities in Bucharest. The beneficiaries of the project are 1470 people at risk of poverty and social exclusion, of which at least 360 are Roma people, 800 young people (of which 200 Roma), 800 women and young people (of which 200 Roma), 150 LGBTI people and 30 people with disabilities, which will be involved in ACTIVITIES: of non-formal education, personal development and psycho-hygiene workshops, permanent career support, biannual job fair, interventions for mental and reproductive health, legal counseling in social justice, including housing, awareness campaign and training in community organization and construction, organizing community consultations and coagulation events, community leadership training in the field of human rights and anti-discrimination, awareness campaign and combating discrimination from an intersectional perspective, as well as organizational development activities for applicant and partner. PARTNERSHIP with the E-Romnja Association brings added value precisely from the intersectional perspective with which the association is already working to defend and promote the rights of Roma women.</p>
Project partners
- E-Romnja- Association for Promoting Roma Women Rights Project partner· Romania