Minority Rights Group 154d ago

Organisation: Customs-Education-Culture-Gaujani Association | Asociația Datini – Educație – Cultură – Găujani This project creates a safe space for young Roma women and girls to freely express their emotions, fears and experiences. Through community activities and awareness campaigns, it aims to combat discrimination and promote diversity. Workshops and courses will address key topics such as emotional well-being, violence prevention, job searching and health. Meetings with community members will also be organized to raise awareness of minority rights and challenge negative stereotypes, promoting inclusion and empowerment. Asociația Datini – Educație – Cultură – Găujani has been supported by a grant from MRG's MARIO programme. The MARIO programme works to build a supportive environment for grassroots Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) engaged in the promotion and protection of EU values across Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia. We select, provide financial support, and build the capacity of grassroots CSOs representing minority communities with grants. We do it for both national and transnational values. We do it to increase the resilience of grassroots CSOs. We do it to advance the protection, promotion and awareness of EU fundamental rights and values in the EU. We understand the difficulties that come with functioning as a grassroots CSO. How it can be difficult to find the funds needed to develop your activities, how the space for civic and democratic action has shrunk, and how weaponized bureaucracy, harassment and growing nationalism have made your work more difficult. In particular, we understand how this has only been exacerbated with the onset of Covid-19. We want to address these limitations: the lack of relevant funding opportunities, the lack of access to EU structures and mechanisms that protect and promote human rights, the lack of institutional support and related partnership opportunities, and the limited capacity for awareness-raising and advocacy, and how all this limits the potential of so many promising organizations. Find out more - https://minorityrights.org/mario/