Strategy

How do we achieve our vision?

Employment is very important for adults, because that's where the income comes from. Their primary necessities are food, drink and hygiene. A healthier lifestyle is therefore being pushed aside. Because if they spend more time cleaning up in and around their house, they will have less time to work or to collect stuff at the garbage dump, so that they earn less money, resulting in less food and drink.

However, employment provision is not (yet) within ProRomi's vision.

Through Asociaţia Transformarea, the local foundation, we also focus a lot on education, especially for primary school children. We try to make parents and children realize that education is the most important thing there is for the new generation. That is the key to success. Unfortunately, it does not always get through to the parents of the children and they sometimes prefer to let them work and earn money than to send them to school. Information for and guidance of the parents is therefore also essential.

ProRomi wants to provide better housing in the form of better insulated houses that are resistant to weather conditions (temperatures from below -20° in winter to 35+° in summer) and rats and other unwanted animals. This is done under the supervision of the facility people.

Together with the Roma ‘elders’ we decide who is next to receive a new house or renovation. We let the Roma gypsies (as far as possible) help with the construction, so that they realize how much effort, time and costs are involved. However, this is not always possible given the situation. The families often have to work every day to scrape together their daily bread.

Asociaţia Transformarea has also been negotiating with the (municipal) government for many years to have the village 'recognised' and also to have better electrical facilities, etc.

ProRroma, another Romanian foundation, previously associated with ProRomi, has purchased a large part of the land of Pata Rat, in order to prevent the government from deciding at some point to ‘bulldoze’ the neighbourhood.

The children are now regularly offered good meals through school, but our organization and the people and organizations that provide assistance also provide as much good food as possible outside of school.

Together with several other foundations that provide clothing and relief supplies, Transformarea also distributes these items.

Where possible, provision is also made for obtaining medicines.

Many gypsy girls get pregnant at a very young age. Transformarea works together with the Rise2Shine foundation to make the children and teenagers of the village aware that this often leads to poverty and misery. Much still needs to be done in this.

Finally, all employees of ProRomi /Transformarea also want to be there for the gypsies, who often live in miserable conditions and experience a lot of misery.

In all the above functions, but also in particular here, the Christian aspect emerges.