The Roma Connect Project involves four organisations from Hungary, Greece, Romania, and Spain. Below you can read about each partner and their field of expertise.
Drom Kotar Mestipen, from Spain, is the coordinator of the Project.
DROM KOTAR MESTIPEN
We are a non-profit organization that, since 1999, fights for the promotion of Roma women and her community, without compromising her identity. Drom Kotar Mestipen means “Road to Freedom” in Romani. A path that this Roma Women´s Association is follwoing since 1999. The common goal is: to fight for equality and non-discrimination of Roma women.
Alternative Innovative Development (A.I.D) is an organization of non-profit nature focusing on YOUTH actions and initiatives that promote intercultural dialogue, human rights, phenomena of marginalization and racism (xenophobia, Islamophibia, etc.), supplying educative supporting services and cultural heritage.
Amrita Association provides support and training for young Roma to help them access higher education and better inclusion in the labour market, and language lessons which bring them more opportunities in their future (English, Spanish, Italian, German, Beás, and Lovari Roma language).
Intercultural Institute Timisoara (IIT) is a non-governmental organisation that is working to create a more active citizenship, as well as raising awareness about the the situation of the most vulnerable groups in the society. They collaborate with NGOs, Universities and public institutions all around the world. They organize, to mention some activities, intercultural education, civic education and human rights education programs for teachers and youth, and conducts research on cultural and educational policies and Roma inclusion.