Zineta Selimovic: Roma want to be part of the modern world
NGO Roma from North, led by Zineta Selimovic from Bijelo Polje, is doing everything to empower Roma men and women to actively participate in society. Selimovis says that cooperation between Roma NGOs is the most important, and the fruit of that teamwork will surely be sweet and recognized by other NGOs and the majority population. Zineta's contribution was especially visible during the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The wave that swept the Roma settlements did not overwhelm them, thanks to her accomplishments. She invited her fellow citizens to stay at home and save their own and the health of others, she delivered food and hygiene products to their families... She taught us solidarity, unity, and showed how important it is to take care of others. We talked to, we can freely say, one of the heroines of the Roma community about the training, the projects she implements, the burning housing issue, and other problems of the Roma population in Bijelo Polje.
Rozana Bozovic: We Roma can only achieve something if we stick together
Rozana Bozovic, a representative of the NGO Roma Movement from Bijelo Polje, says she will never give up on education – both, formal and nonformal, despite the difficulties, because only then she can help her community. Although young, through the NGO Roma Movement, she is our active associate. She is currently helping to enroll Roma children in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools within the project New beginning for 500 Roma students because, as she says, the inclusion of children in the education system must be a natural thing. Rozana participated in numerous projects, worked at the Vocational High School, and after the REspect campaign, her face became recognizable in Bijelo Polje. Her name is often mentioned in the media, and why this hard-working and capable girl deserved much more, find out in the lines that follow.
Strengthen of Roma community in Municipality of Bijelo Polje
Through the ROMACTED programme, the facilitator from Bijelo Polje, Rafet Mulic, has organized on 19 and 24 June Community Action Group meetings. The meetings were organized with the aim of empowerment Roma community members, in order to express their interest in solving problems within the community. In order to formulate constructive proposals for changing the situation in the Roma community, the meetings discussed the housing problems of Roma in the Rakonje settlement, the arrangement of the Roma settlement of Strojtanica, the cultural integration of Roma in the municipality.
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