INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY 2008

International Roma Day was officially declared in 1990 in Poland, during the fourth World Romani Congress in honour of the first major international meeting of Roma representatives, 7-12 of April, 1971 in London, UK. International Roma Day is a day to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues facing Romani people. It is worrying to note how little progress has been achieved since 1990 in improving the living conditions of Roma. The international community must utilise this day and remember its obligations to provide and implement legal/social/political instruments, which enable Roma to free themselves from precarious situation in which they live.

The youth division felt that this year they should raise awareness,and that all communities should help us celebrate our special day, so as a joint project with swale housing the youth from Gypsy and Traveller back grounds, along with the settled youth from swale took part in many activities including,the making of old fashioned clothes, then making their own up to date fashion clothes, building paper wagons, performing a dance and concert as well as having a team building day at an out door centre for all the youth to work together. The week was a total success and all the youth and we adults really enjoyed it. The opening day was on Friday the 11th of April and George Summers D.C.L.G southern region came to open the day to the public. Thank you George.

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THESE ARE SOME COMMENTS BY THE VISITORS AND THE YOUTH AND YOUNG CHILDREN THAT TOOK PART.

The fashion show was really funny, we enjoyed it better than we thought we would, when the girls said that us boys had to do it as well! We were like have a laugh we aint doing that. But im glad we did, the babies had the best time ever I think, and the music was sweet.

Days like this are important because they stop non-travellers looking at us in a bad way, We hope that this will help all the other kids that are here today to see us as just kids like them. So far we have really enjoyed what we have been doing but we are a little bit worried when we have to do our stage show on Friday

 When we all sat down to organise how the open day would be I never thought we would be getting my school involved except from using it for our activities for the week, but when mum said why cant you and the boys do what you did at the Christmas concert I thought well could be possible, so I spoke to me mates and me teacher Dan, who then set about organising the music for the day, the open day was really great and my teacher also my friend did us really proud, I would like to thank all me mates and my school for allowing all this to happen cheers bluey

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