585 Roma children and students, as well as 500 Roma parents, all from Albania, will benefit from a three-year educational intervention, initiated by the Roma Education Fund headquarters in Budapest (REF) and largely supported through a grant from the European Union (EU) pre-accession funds.
Financed by a €3 million contribution from the European Union, together with over €827,000 in funding from REF, the EU Regional Action for Roma Education: Increased Education Opportunities for Roma Students and Roma Youth in Western Balkans and Turkey seeks to reduce the gap between Roma and non-Roma in the participation in and completion of quality education through gender-sensitive programming, to improve Roma students’ transition from education to employment and to promote durable systemic change and desegregation of education systems.
The kick-off event under the project took place on 30th January 2019 at the “House of Colors” Social Centre in the Albanian capital of Tirana. Among the high officials who participated in the event, were Alessandro Angius from the European Union Delegation to Albania, Besa Shahini, the Minister of Education, Sport and Youth, as well as representatives from the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, the municipality of Tirana and the municipality of Shkodra.
