Atac-1 Sokak No: 1 / 12 Sihhiye
Ankara/
Turkey
- Democracy and community development
RomaYouth aims;
•to increase the capacity of roman youth and roman youth initiatives, on combating against all kinds of discriminative policies and implementations,
•to motivate roman youth to have leadership roles in social and economical life,
•to enable Roma youth to participate fully, equally and actively in social, cultural and economical life
•to improve the coordination between youth related organizations and institutions in order to enable them share experience and know-how
•to implement researches on the problems of young people and to make youthful policies,
•to participate in decision and policy making processes about youth,
•to provide space for the participation of young people in national and local level youth policy making processes,
•to increase the personal, social and cultural capacity of the young people in order to enable them to participate actively in social and economical life
•to raise awareness on human rights, democracy, peace, brotherhood and solidarity among young people
RomaYouth is the partner of a large scale project run by Spolu. The project started on December 15th 2009 and lasted until June 15th 2010. The aim of the project is to support inclusion of Roma young people into society deeply by organizing various activities. During the project RomaYouth brought together the personal stories of young people and disseminate them on various ways, implement regular guidance and information work towards the youth, stimulate self organized socialization and team building activities, build and maintain a website to attract youth and students. Our main activities are;
1- Intercultural meetings,
2- Non-Formal trainings for Roman youth,
3- Capacity building activities such as photograph courses,painting,street soccer tournaments between Roman youth and non-Roman youth.
4- Lobbying and advocating of the Roman cultural right,
5- Consultancy to the decision makers for the recent democratic developments in Turkey about Roma people.