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Roma and Sinti in Germany: "Whatever you do, you are always different"

This is the story of Nastasia. She had to fight for higher education because she belongs to the Sinti and Roma population, which is still discriminated against in the German education system.

Nastassia Kordila-Balke is an assistant at Lehe Primary School in Bremerhaven. For her, it is not something to be taken for granted:

"For a Sinta member to become a civil servant or work in the public sector, there was no such thing. That was unattainable for me. "I didn't even have to think about it, it was so far away."

Sinti and Roma are still discriminated against in the German education system. This often prevents progress in education and in life, as the Independent Commission on Anti-Gypsyism's 2021 report shows. The commission investigated the situation of Sinti and Roma for two years.

Nastasia believes that this is a typical stereotype for Sinti and Roma: "And people say: 'You are very sensitive.' Yes, my daughter is musical, but I see racism here. In other children, it was certainly not so pronounced."

Today, Nastasya's daughter is in the seventh grade of high school - it is a top level school. He has a four (very good) in German and mathematics.

What Nastasya's family is experiencing is called structural racism. Racism as a structure allows inequality to be legitimized and "normalized." It is about historically established power relations. Sinti and Roma have been persecuted for centuries. After the Nazi terror, marginalization continued. The Nazi genocide against the Sinti and Roma was politically recognized only in 1982. Racist prejudices still exist: Sinti and Roma are "lazy" and do not adapt to the majority population.

 

Link: https://www.dw.com/sr/romi-i-sinti-u-nema%C4%8Dkoj-%C5%A1ta-god-radio-uvek-si-druga%C4%8Diji/a-61314969

The unexplained story of a series of racist murders of Hungarian Roma

Thirteen years after a series of racist murders of Roma in Hungary, a shocking and bizarre confession of the main perpetrator was published. However, there is little public interest in that case and it is not clear whether there will be a new process, writes DW.

They killed from an ambush. Cowardly, cold-blooded and cruel. They set their victims' houses on fire and shot them as they fled from the flames. Or they were killed in their sleep. In total, six people were killed, including a child. 55 others were injured, mostly seriously. For one reason: they were Roma.

The series of murders in 2008 and 2009 is the worst racist crime in recent Hungarian history. It is a series of right-wing terrorist attacks - similar to the series of so-called murders. of the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) in Germany. The murders of Roma were committed at the end of the socialist-liberal government's mandate, at a time when Hungary was mired in corruption and political turmoil. A few months later, Viktor Orbán came to power with a two-thirds majority.

 

Link: https://www.dw.com/sr/nerazja%C5%A1njena-pri%C4%8Da-o-seriji-ubistava-ma%C4%91arskih-roma/a-63088744

Bitola: From September 21, residents of Bair will be able to apply for funds from the Household Renovation Fund

The household renovation fund is fully financed by EU project funds, and the total amount is 150,000 euros. Of this amount, 135,000 euros will be directly allocated to construction interventions, while 10% or 15,000 is planned for the preparation of preliminary measurements/projects for the proposed renovations. Citizens who will successfully apply and will be selected will not receive financial resources, but delivered construction interventions (installation of PVC windows, restoration of facade and reconstruction of roofing). A tender will be announced for this. According to the plan, these activities should begin in the spring of 2023

 

The call for applications will be published on September 21st (Wednesday) at 10:00 am. It will be possible to apply every working day from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the premises of the local community "Dimitar Vlahov" on Bair, until October 7 (Friday), until 2:00 p.m. As for the criteria, the greatest emphasis is placed on the physical condition of the object. Priority will be given to households of single parents, large families, households consisting only of elderly persons (socio-economic criteria).

 

The fund will be realized in several stages. The first is the creation of a database, for which field activities are undertaken. Through the ongoing campaign for legalization, the Bair Support Team (BST) is actively working on the ground in the Bair neighborhood and communicating with residents, in order to ensure that everyone has accurate information about the application criteria. Those households that have legalized houses, or rather a title deed, will be able to apply. Apart from this basic documentation, the applicants should submit a notarized declaration that they are citizens of Roma nationality with a residence in the Bair settlement, a copy of an identity card, photos of the external appearance of the building. The application must be completely filled out, with all other consents to participate.

 

Link: https://apla.mk/direktno/item/11472-od-21-septemvri-zhitelite-na-bair-kje-mozhat-da-apliciraat-za-sredstva-od-fondot-za-renoviranje-na-domakjinstvata-intervju-so-klimentina-gjorgjioska-proekten-menadjer-davame-nesebichen-pridones-naselenieto-da-ima-barem-isti-preduslovi-za-zhivot-kak?fbclid=IwAR2gPIdDeXP0tg5MLOhyDuTVggNUFsftpfQ-7JI-NWaIt3-w91ppJUA8Xoo

The famous poet Mariela Mehr, a participant in the second congress of the IRU in Geneva in 1978, died

On September 5, 2022, in Tuscany, Italy, the Swiss poet Mariela Mehr, who belonged to the Jenish people (term for Roma in Switzerland) died

She was born on December 27, 1947 in Zurich. At a very young age, she underwent the "Kinder der Landstrasse" eugenics program run by the Swiss government and based on the extraction of children from families of Jenish, Roma and Sinta ethnicities. In 2012 Mariella became part of 100 thousand poets for change and the Lavinia Dickinson project, publishing her poems in the Italian Anthology of 100TPC (Lavinia Dickinson Edizioni). She participated with her dedication and her lyrics in some of our actions in defense of the rights of the Roma and in the cases for the termination of discriminatory policies against these peoples in the European Union and for the protection of refugees and migrants.

Mariela was a delegate to the 2nd IRU Congress in Geneva in 1978.

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