ABD joins the "DREAM" project to develop a respectful Europe, against discrimination and social exclusion of Roma people

ABD continues its internationalization process. Now ABD will be one of the partner entities of the «DREAM» project, an initiative that was officially born on October 1 and aims to develop a respectful Europe, against discrimination and social exclusion of Roma people.

The «DREAM» project, which integrates 11 entities from 10 European countries, has the desire to create a network of associations and municipalities at European level that put contemporary forms of sociocultural exclusion and stigmatization suffered by Roma people at the center of the debate from all over Europe. The intention of the consortium is to debate and transfer concrete actions that promote social inclusion and that fight against the social and professional exclusion of this group. In this sense, the following tasks are initially proposed:

• Train social workers and agents (at least 70), as well as secondary school teachers (at least 70) about the main cultural and social problems of Roma people.
• Exchange good practices in all partner countries of the project, to promote the sociocultural inclusion of Roma people and fight against the marginality they suffer.
• Build narratives about the gypsy culture that empower the sense of the gypsy identity in Europe and achieve a recognition of the history and gypsy culture by the citizens.

The partners of the «DREAM» project will meet in Isernia (Italy) for the first time on October 26 and 27 to discuss the social exclusion of Roma people and the possibilities of inclusion, as well as to share good international practices. This initiative is led by the Italian entity Romano Pijats Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS. In addition to this organization and ABD, they are also part of the «DREAM» project Comune di Isernia (Italy), Liberalna Alternativa Za Rosmko Grazhdansko Obedinenie (Bulgaria), Nvo Prerodba (Republic of Macedonia), Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of International Studies and Contemporary History (Romania), Savez Roma O Republici Hravatskoj «KALI SARA» (Croatia), IASIS (Greece), Epeka (Slovenia), Epeka (Serbia), Epeka (Montenegro).