Research on underprivileged Roma + videos & photos

The three-year program titled, Roma – Without Borders, was designed to aid the disadvantaged Roma of the Carpathian Basin. Never before has there been such large-scale research on the topic as now. These results were presented on June 23 in Szeged – wrote Délmagyar.hu.

Fotó: István Kuklis Forrás: Délmagyar.hu

Levente Székely, leader of the research project, spoke about the overall situation they observed among the Roma communities.

“Our research revealed that almost half of those in Hungary and Transylvania are satisfied with their lives despite the fact that many of them live in very poor conditions. In the region of Upper Hungary in Slovakia this proportion is slightly worse. More than eighty percent of respondents consider themselves native Hungarian speakers and the majority identifies primarily as Hungarian. It also turned out that almost half of the companies surveyed have already employed employees of Roma origin whose work they were mostly satisfied with. This is also important because the majority of Roma expect an improvement in their personal situation from the labor market and not from subsidies,” stated the head researcher, summarizing some of the main points from the thousands of pages of work.

Two of Csaba Böjte’s students from Deva in the video below: Annamária Albert and Denisa Michi

Lívia Járóka, Vice-President of the European Parliament, joined the conference through a video message. To conclude, she said that the aim of the research was to determine the most important tasks ahead and where to spend money most efficiently in the next grant period.

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