Roma Inclusion Hub "Complex integration services for Roma inclusion in the Municipalities Maglizh and Nikolaevo"

About this project

<p>The project was initiated to meet important problems of marginalized minorities in the municipalities of Maglizh and Nikolaevo, defined in the Strategy of Stara Zagora District for equality, inclusion and participation of Roma for the period 2021 - 2030 in implementation of the National Strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria for equality , inclusion and participation of the Roma / 2021 - 2030 /.The project proposal envisages the creation of 2 hubs to offer complex integrated health and social measures in support of Roma inclusion in the municipalities of Maglizh and Nikolaevo. The scope of the project activities will include children over 7 years of age, young people (12 - 29 years old) and adult representatives of the Roma minority. In addition to medical examinations, the hubs specially equipped for this purpose will also host seminars, talks and other mass or individual forms of work with the target groups on topics such as prevention of early or unwanted pregnancy, hygienic care, mprovement of health culture, prevention of early pregnancy. dropping out of the educational system, etc. We plan to increase the organizational capacity of municipalities by providing certification training for Roma educational and health mediators.For this purpose, the municipality of Maglizh plans to build a new health center, which will have offices for medical examinations and health mediation will be carried out in the field of prevention in all its aspects. In the building of the National Chitalishte "Perobuda - 1869" - Maglizh there will be premises where psychologists, social workers, health and educational mediators will work with the target group. In the municipality of Nikolaevo, two existing municipal buildings will be repaired and adapted for these activities. All specialists engaged in the project will provide mobile services within the planned activities in other settlements in the municipalities where persons from the target groups of the project have been identified.</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

One of the key outcomes was the transfer of good practices from Norway in the field of socially significant problems in childhood and youth, working with families of vulnerable groups to build integration bridges. Training visit in Norway was organized to familiarize participants with social services for the inclusion of marginalized communities in the country and good practices. Experts from the Norwegian partner conducted a 6-day training on knowledge transfer, local good practices and social innovations in the field of integration into society and the labor market. The training combined theory and practice, visits in institutions aimed at providing services to support language acquisition and integration, visit to the innovative Trondheim International School and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Psychology, exchange of experience and good practices. Three one-day events were held in Bulgaria - workshops for municipalities with over 40 participants. During the workshops, an evaluation session was organized to present a monitoring report by the Norwegian partner with conclusions and recommendations for the continuation of the project activities in the sustainability period and indicators of success.

Project partners

• CROSS-CULTURAL INTRODUCTION AS Donor project partner· Norway
• MUNICIPALITY NIKOLAEVO Project partner· Bulgaria
• World Without Borders Non-Profit Association Project partner· Bulgaria