Videocrux - Children facing education stifles opportunities

#Videocrux - Children facing education stifles opportunities Children facing education stifles opportunities
Roma children are on the margins of society across eastern Europe where poor access to education stifles opportunities. However you wouldn't know it from these ones, who are fizzing with ambition. Children, "When will I grow up I want to be a policeman. Teacher, Doctor, professor, teacher, doctor. '
Children facing education stifles opportunities
Roma children are on the margins of society across eastern Europe where poor access to education stifles opportunities. However you wouldn't know it from these ones, who are fizzing with ambition. Children, "When will I grow up I want to be a policeman. Teacher, Doctor, professor, teacher, doctor. '
Some getting benefits from NGO project
They are the lucky few to benefit from an NGO project to combat discrimination. Most Roma children find the odds are stacked against them. Here in Romania 19 percent of Roma people aged 18 to 29 have never gone to school. That figure is only two percent for their non-Roma peers. This special school is now bucking the trend. Of the 21 students in this class, 13 are Roma.
Hungary children still not getting education
But this remains the exception and not the rule. Here in Hungary 40 percent don't finish primary school. Segregation of Roma children is illegal but prejudice runs deep in society. Dr Farkas Lilla, Chance for Children Foundation, "It comes from the level of the parents, then goes up to the level of schools, local government and then to the ministry. Everybody knows what should be done but nobody wants to take the political risk of desegregating. Because if you do, the political party you represent in local government and national government will suffer the consequences."
Roma struggling to get proper education
And its not just the Roma children who suffer from this bigotry. In the end, the of whole society shares the burden. Costel Bercus, Chairman, Roma Education Fund, "If we have too many children who are poorly educated or not educated at all. So they provide no economic benefit to society. Roma people need to understand that, but so does the rest of the population." And so the struggle goes on to ensure this generation of Roma grow up with more opportunities than their parents were ever given.

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