The main question of the interviews is: Why do you think such educational camps and meetings are important? (for Roma youth)
ETP SLOVENSKO
Antoine De Hertogh
Transcription: Hello, I’m Antoine De Hertogh. I’m working as a social worker here in Lunik IX. I participated at the Summer Workshop Camp in Poland in Oświęcim with the boys from the locality. I think this project was very interesting for us, but mainly for the kids to meet each other and to create contacts with people from other countries and to develop themselves. Also I really believe that they took a lot from the workshops we made there. The workshops helped them to know better each other and also to know better themselves.
Dávid Korčkovský
Transcription: I think it is very beneficial that young people meet each other at such workshops. It is important that these are international meetings of young people from different countries, as it offers new perspectives. When I talked to our group, they said it was an inspiration to them in many ways, because they learned how the Roma from other countries live, how they work, and what are their traditions. Our young people have already discovered that the Roma in Poland live a different way of life than in Slovakia. They are going home inspired and they aspire to get a better standard of living as they saw here in Poland. Because in Slovakia the housing for some Roma is not of the same quality as in Poland.
Fundacja Dom Kultury
Agnieszka Caban
Translation: My name is Agnieszka Caban and I am a trainer and educator at this year’s Summer Workshop Camp in Oświęcim. I believe that such initiatives are very necessary and very important. Mainly due to the fact that during this year’s camp there were about 20 male and female participants from different countries. These include Roma youth from Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Apart from the fact that we had a great number of different educational workshops, a very important initiative of this camp was mutual integration. This is because Roma young people have had, I think, a unique opportunity to meet and get to know their peers from different countries. And I think this initiative will also be at the heart of next year’s Summer Workshop Camp.
Vzájemné soužití
Zuzana Janeczková
Transcription: My name is Zuzana Janeczková and I’m a social worker in Vzájemné soužití. I think this project is very important for young people because they should meet with other children from other countries. And it’s especially important for them to know their history.
Simona Reichlová
Transcription: Ibelieve it’s very important for them because they (Roma youth from Czechia) don’t have such chances as their peers. And I think it’s going to give them a lot of useful things for their life.
Univercity of Ostrava
Zuzana Stanková
Transcription: My name is Zuzana Stanková, I work at the University of Ostrava Faculty of Social Studies as an academician. I teach community work and I also have been a community worker in socially excluded localities. I think these initiatives or these camps for young people are really important for their connection and for knowing some new…, not just the people and places of course, but I think it’s very important to know new contexts and knowledge from another communities or young groups. It can improve them and their seeing of the context of our lives.
