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Responding to the suggestions of Center "Amalipe" submitted within the public consultation procedure on the draft of the National Development Programme "Bulgaria 2020", Mrs. Juliana Nikolova - Chairman of the Interdepartmental Working Group on elaboration of the NDP - sent a special letter to the organization. In it she thanked the proposals and stressed that the problem of integration of Roma in Bulgaria is serious and is one of the areas in which there is shared understanding that strong and targeted measures should be undertaken."There is no doubt that this topic should find...

The third training for the community moderators by Community monitoring of access to health care in the Roma community project was held on 15 and 16 July in the hotel "Ambaritsa" in Gorna Oryahovitsa.   Activists and volunteers from the local development clubs in the project villages - Balvan, Batak, Varbovka and Vodoley attended the training. The activists have developed themselves a questionnaire to conduct a survey on health status of people from the project places, as the recearch will be launched on 26 July.   Around 50 interviewers - volunteers are mobilized...

 From the 11th till the 15th of July, 2011,in the city of Gorna Oriahovitza,training of trainers called „Stereotypes towards Roma community”was held.Twenty two expertsfrom the  Regional inspectorates of education (RIE), the Regional Directorates „Social Assistance” (RDSA) and the RegionalHealth Inspections (RHI) from 6 districts – Sofia district, Vratza, Veliko Tarnovo, Bourgas, Pazardzik  and Shumen participated in this event. Their colleagues from the analogical institutionsin Bucharest district, Romania also joint the event.The...

On July 8th 2011 at the Ministry of health a Round table “New generation of health specialists of Roma origin. Results and perspectives” took place. It was initiated by Center Amalipe with the support of Roma Health Project of OSI. The purpose of the meeting was to take stock of achievements and to look ahead at concrete mechanisms for reaching sustainability of the successful practice of Roma health scholarship program (RHSP). Participants in the Round table were the Minister of the EU funds Tomislav Donchev, Deputy minister of health Desislava Dimitrova, Deputy...

Within three consecutive days, from 26th  to 28th of June 2011 in ‘Lesoparka’ complex near Veliko Turnovo, a training of candidates for Community Moderators  from six municipalities in the country, which will establish Centers for Development of the Roma community was conducted. The training was organized within the project ‘Promoting participatory field work at grass-root level in marginalized and traditional Roma Groups’, that is implemented by Center Amalipe (Bulgaria), Liga pro Europa, (Romania) and...