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School Education for Roma Integration
Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

According to data from the Council of Europe, 50% of the Roma children around Europe do not complete their primary education. Some of the main reasons identified for this are that the Roma parents may often lack information and parenting skills to support their children’s language and social development and that the social environment in which the Roma children live is often very different from the social environment they have to face at school. All these research data highlight the fact that one of the major factors that contribute to the early school leaving of the Roma children is the luck of the proper preparation. For that purpose, the SEDRIN consortium aims to improve the preparation that the Roma children receive in their pre-school age but also during the first classes of the elementary school through the empowerment of Roma women. The Roma women have been selected because they live in the same environment with the children, they can understand better their constraints and they can be more helpful than a non-Roma could be. However, it is absolutely necessary that the Roma women receive training in order to acquire the skills, tools and methods necessary to prepare in an effective way the Roma children in order to go to school. The SEDRIN project aims to develop a training methodology for the training of the Roma women and of the Roma children on the basis of their real needs as identified in an initial research. On the basis of this methodology, the project will organise workshops in which the Roma women are going to be trained on how to prepare their children better in order to cope with the school environment. After that, the trained Roma women are going to apply the skills and competencies they have acquired by organising training sessions for the Roma children both of pre-school age and in the first classes of the elementary school. The impact envisaged by the project is the significant decrease of the early school living.
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