Our interest in the National Agency for Roma (NAR) in Romania dates back to 2012, when we completed the project "FromRoma" and studied the integration policies of Romania. After that we were given the opportunity to partner in NAR project "Danubian Working Platform on Social Roma Inclusion".
On 6th of May, Association BRTMI team visited the office of the National Agency for Roma of Romania in Bucharest. We presented our activities and the experience gained in recent years on the integration of children and students from ethnic minorities and approbation Romanian experience in school mediation in our country. Interests cause our experience in the field of employment of socially excluded young people who aren’t in education, employment or training (NEETs).
We shared ideas for on attracting to employment and social housing for Roma people in the cross-border region.
The assessment of our Romanian colleagues, is that the questions discussed during the meeting are challenge and deserve our unite efforts to overcome them. They found our suggestions interesting and our work more than needful.
During the meeting were outlined future partnership possibilities and were discussed problems that Bulgaria and Romania meet in integration processes for Roma people.