Being passive is not the path

About this project

<p>This project will help to achieve the goal of work in community centres. This goal is to support social inclusion and positive change in communities. The project will focus mainly on a group of people who are socially excluded or at risk of social exclusion, with an emphasis on Marginalized Roma Community. The main focus of the activities of the established community centres will be:</p> <p><br> - Implementation of measures aimed at social inclusion and integration into society,<br> - Services such as prevention of socio-pathological phenomena in communities,<br> - Care services, basic and specialised counselling,<br> - Accessible education for pre-school children, activation and low-threshold activities for school-age children and youth,<br> - Support for the education of children and youth, support for the completion of primary education and the continuation of further studies in secondary school,<br> - Facilitating contact with the wider environment, promoting integration into existing social networks, structures, services and institutions,<br> - The provision of adequate support services to increase employability and subsequent employment, including employment counselling,<br> - Increasing the availability, efficiency and quality of services provided aimed at social inclusion and integration into society.</p> <p>The Norwegian partner is represented by experts in the field of community stakeholders involvement and mediation. Their role shall be to work with local communities, using specific methodology developed by themselves. The partner will show the project promoter the Nordic approach, with a vision of its usage in Slovak conditions. There will also be a transfer of knowledge not only from the partner to the local people, but also from the local people to the partner.</p>

Project partners

• Norwegian University College for Agriculture and Rural Development Donor project partner· Norway
• Project DOM.ov Project partner· Slovakia
• Municipality Olejnikov Project partner· Slovakia
• Elementary school including kindergarden Project partner· Slovakia