Roma children engaged in migration are often excluded from compulsory education. The lack of coordination between schools in localities of origin and destination, often coupled with discriminatory attitudes towards the Roma, impede children’s access to non-disruptive and quality education. Terre des hommes (Tdh) and its partners initiated the “MISTO AVILEAN!” project to promote the non-discriminatory integration of Roma children in the education system of three countries concerned by their migration – Romania, France, and Spain.

While Balkan countries and Western Europe are facing a high number of asylum-seekers, Romania’s opened doors weren’t walked by many in this regard. With only 2138 asylum requests in 2018, Romania’s population is rarely getting in contact with refugees, making it easy for the public speech to have xenophobic tendencies. Terre des hommes uses sports and games to bring the refugee and host communities together, and strengthen the intercultural dialogue and social connection.

As Roma children are among the most vulnerable in Moldova, exposed to long term exclusion and bearing the weight of discrimination against their parents, we focus our work on ensuring respect for the right to equality and non-discrimination of this ethnic minority.

About half of all children in Romania face the risk of poverty and social exclusion. They live in deplorable housing conditions, are left behind by parents who migrate, drop out of school, experience violence or health problems. Terre des hommes helps vulnerable groups in Romania, such as Roma, to tackle this situation by creating small enterprises in regions where little employment opportunities are available.

Terre des hommes Romania together with its partners from Austria, Spain, Italy, and Bulgaria addressed this need through the 2-year project “Reinforcing cOmpetences to Build Inclusion through a New learning methodology (ROBIN)”. 

The handbook “Migration and Integration into Formal Education” addresses the issue of poor educational attainment of the children and youth affected by migration. Because of their travel status, they are often either school drop-outs or experience disrupted periods of school attendance, being most likely to be included into Second chance type educational programmes.

Tdh Romania and its partners will create in Romania models of economic development by supporting 28 entrepreneurs from Roma and other vulnerable groups by means of trainings, consultancy, facilitation, mentoring and grants. 

The document is the leaflet of the project introduction the objectives and activities. 

May 18th 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland: A roundtable is organised on the occasion of the opening of a photo exhibition entitled "Roma, the tireless quest for paradise" - presenting the photos of Yves Leresche.

Terre des hommes in Romania developed a project named Reinforcing cOmpetences to Build Inclusion through a New learning methodology (ROBIN), ref. no. 2015-1-RO01-KA204-015001.

The main aim of the project was to develop an innovative learning methodology that would reinforce educators’ own personal and social capacities for successful social integration of children on the move, currently enrolled in second chance programs.