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European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture

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We exist to free society from the misunderstanding and prejudice that holds all of us back

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Our page of Roma News section below. Resources for the Roma Community gives useful information in different languages about the COVID-19/Coronavirus situation and how to deal with it. See also the video in the

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Our features short ​videos, usually in Romanes with English sub-titles, on issues of current ​interest to Roma people in the UK.
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Our January 2023 Roma News edition covers the UK Holocaust Memorial Day, new law on marriages and the Household Support Fund:

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​​Societies across the world are proudly promoting equality and diversity. But some still get it wrong. No one should be discriminated against just because of who s/he is. ​Give a fair chance...

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This Learning Resource consists of introductory information about Roma. It consists of eight sections that can be used in Primary (KS2) and Secondary (KS3) schools, with teachers in higher and further education, other professionals and it might also be of interest to non-school audiences to build a broader understanding about Roma people.

Roma people are keen for non-Roma people, and their children, to learn more about Roma history and culture. The positive inclusion of this material in the school curriculum will help to overturn negative stereotypes and create positive relationships based on mutual respect and understanding.

The Learning Resource has been designed to be used in curriculum work focussing on, but not limited to:

British Values

Personal, Social, Health and Education (PSHE)

Rights Respecting Schools

English: Life Stories

History: Life in the Second World War

Geography: Journeys

Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month (GRTHM)

Developed through workshops with Year 5 children in Southern Road Primary School (London Borough Newham) and Year 6 children in Redbridge Primary School (London Borough Redbridge), this Learning Resource can be used as stand-alone sections or as a whole (look at Workshop Outline and Suggested Activities as an example), and can be adapted to suit the needs of individual classes.

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Roma Oral History Learning Resource | Roma Oral History

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This Learning Resource consists of introductory information about Roma. It consists of eight sections that can be used in Primary (KS2) and Secondary (KS3) schools, with teachers in higher and further education, other professionals and it might also be of interest to non-school audiences to build a broader understanding about Roma people.

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Museu Virtual del Poble Gitano a Catalunya

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Traveller's Times - Roma and Gypsy Slavery

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From the earliest times Roma Gypsies have been victims of the slave trade….writes The Travellers’ Times regular blogger, writer and Romany poet Ray Wills.

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Roads From The Past - Short Film - Travellers' Times Online

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Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) groups in Hampshire schools

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Key dates for GRT people throughout History

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Key dates for GRT people throughout History

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Gypsies, Roma, Travellers: An Animated History

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"We want to be heard" - Roma and Sinti in the OSCE region

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International Roma Day is an opportunity for us all to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues facing Roma people.

The day, also known as International Romani Day, takes place on 8 April every year after first being declared in 1990. International Roma Day draws attention to discrimination directed at Roma communities globally and calls for the human rights of all to be respected and observed.

European Roma and Sinti (often labelled as 'Gypsies') were targeted for complete extermination under the Nazi regime. Historians estimate that between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered or died as a result of starvation or disease, and many were imprisoned and subjected to sterilisation and forced labour. This became known as the Porrajmos, which translates to 'the Devouring'.

Many of those who survived this period under the Nazis were still subject to persecution after World War Two, as Roma communities have continued to face discrimination and prejudice across Europe in different forms.
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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 8 April: International Roma Day

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Barbara Turtakova

Barbara is a Slovak Roma from Kosice, currently living in Bradford and working as an assistant in a law firm and is also studying at a university.

You can watch her video HERE

EN transcription: HERE

Peter Pollak MEP

Peter Pollák is a Slovak politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

He offers his vies on education from the parent's perspective.

Florentina Chiriac

Florentina is from Romania and for the past six years has been working as a Police Constable in Surrey.

You can watch her video HERE

EN transcription: HERE

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Positive Roma role models - COMPAS.org.uk

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Barbara is a Slovak Roma from Kosice, currently living in Bradford and working as an assistant in a law firm and is also studying at a university. You can watch her video HERE EN transcription: HERE Peter Pollák is a Slovak politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

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Travelling Ahead: Wales Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Advice and Advocacy Service « TGP Cymru

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Advice, support and individual and community advocacy working alongside Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families on issues such as accommodation, sites, planning, rights and accessing services. We run youth forums, support to report hate crime and discrimination and we can offer training to improve servic…

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Throughout the day, women with neatly tied buns slip out of a green door on to a narrow pavement just outside Kraków's medieval market.

As young men in US army uniforms go by, trying to make sense of the maps on their phones, the women gather in a nook of a tall grey building to smoke hand-rolled cigarettes and chat.

Before the invasion of Ukraine, the building was a hostel offering cheap accommodation to young Europeans Interrailing during their gap year. Now it is home to 80 Romany refugees from Ukraine, nearly all mothers with children.

"I just wish landlords would meet with us before they reject us," says 42-year-old Nadia, who fled from her village near Donetsk when Russian bombs fell on her neighbour's house in March. She came to Poland with her son's wife, 22-year-old Raiia, her adult daughter, and with seven children between them.

While the women have found work in a meat processing factory making hotdog sausages, like other Romany refugees they have hit a wall in finding a home.

"They face discrimination," says Mariam Masudi a coordinator at the hostel, working for Salam Lab, an NGO. "Roma are not admitted to other reception points. No one wants to rent to them. I don't know anyone who has managed to settle in Poland. Those who have been able to move out of the hostel have moved abroad."

The official number puts Ukraine's Roma population at 400,000, though experts see that as a low estimate. No one knows how many Ukrainian Roma have arrived in Poland, says Poland's civil rights deputy ombudsman, Hanna Machińska.

"These are large intergenerational families, some of 30 people. Most don't have a precise plan when they arrive in Poland," she says. "This situation requires institutional help. Individuals are not able to organise support for such large groups of people."

Families are uncertain how long they will be able to remain at the hostel, with rumours they may have to move out in May. Photograph: Anna Liminowicz/The Guardian

However, institutional help has not been forthcoming. Most of the relief has been coordinated by self-organised individuals and NGOs, says Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska an anthropologist at the University of Warsaw, who organised the Facebook group, Poland-Roma-Ukraine at the start of the war. "We wanted to gather information about people in need of help, communicate with central organs and find people ready to host Romany refugees," she says. "We didn't think that all responsibility for the situation would be shifted on to us."

Even Nadia's hostel has only been made possible by a private donor from the US who rented out the property until 15 May. That date can often be heard repeated with uncertainty among the women sitting in the hostel's lobby. "And then what, they throw us out?" one woman says, as she kicks an invisible ball towards the door.

Ukrainian women were let on the train with their pets, but they didn't want to let me on

Nadia, Romany refugee

This is a question that Karol Wilczyński, director of Salam Lab, cannot answer. "Without governmental support, we will not manage. There is no way," he says.

Romany refugees face not only a lack of support but outright discrimination, both from relief providers and fellow Ukrainian refugees. The fact that much of the relief effort is provided by self-organised volunteers rather than the government means equal treatment of minorities is difficult to assert.

"In the first days of the war, we saw Poles make beautiful gestures of solidarity towards refugees from Ukraine," says Talewicz-Kwiatkowska, who is a member of Poland's Roma. "I would have never imagined we would be here talking about discrimination or dehumanisation, but that is what we are seeing."

According to Talewicz-Kwiatkowska, Roma have been refused access to transport and resources offered by the volunteers welcoming refugees at the border. "Roma were chased away from reception points, where it was said they were stealing clothes to later sell. We also received information that Romany families and groups were turned away from cars and buses offering transport," she says.

"Finding accommodation was another challenge, because when someone does not want to have Roma in their car, you can imagine they will not want to invite them under their own roof."

'No one wants to rent to them': Mariam Masudi, a coordinator at the hostel, says Romany refugees face discrimination. Photograph: Anna Liminowicz/The Guardian

Masudi says that Roma fleeing Ukraine often face discrimination from other refugees. "When they see Roma at the reception point, the other refugees loudly tell each other to hide their belongings. Roma in Ukraine are used to facing discrimination, and what they experience in Poland is the continuation of this," she says.

When Nadia arrived in Lviv, she says train station staff would not allow her and her family into the boarding area reserved for women and children hoping to travel to Poland. "Ukrainian women were let in with their pets," she says. "But they didn't want to let me on. They didn't believe I was a refugee from Donetsk."

Only after she showed her papers, proving she had come from the east, was she allowed to board the train. "But still, they wouldn't give me any of the food they were giving out to refugees," she says.

Masudi assists women at the hostel. Photograph: Anna Liminowicz/The Guardian

The best option for the Roma in the hostel would be to go west, Masudi says, to countries that are "more diverse, where they would blend in". While Talewicz-Kwiatkowska has been able to coordinate with Roma organisations in Sweden and Germany to organise accommodation, many are reluctant to take up the offers. "They don't want to be far away from Ukraine - they hope they will be able to go back home soon," she says.

Others are afraid to trust foreign help. "After the war in Yugoslavia, many Roma fell victims to organ sellers. Some are afraid of the situation repeating itself."

Nadia is aware of the stereotypes that follow her, but hopes, as she settles in Poland, she will be able to prove them false. "When one Romany person steals something, or is fortune-telling, then people think we're all like that," she says. "But I don't know how to be a fortune-teller, so what can I do? All I know is how to work a job."
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'Meet us before you reject us': Ukraine's Roma refugees face closed doors in Poland

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CHISINAU, Moldova - Angelina Leonidovna Kovach decided to leave the Ukrainian city Kharkiv in the second week of March, emerging from her basement refuge into a country under fire. She crossed from Ukraine into neighboring Moldova with a group of her relatives - all members of Ukraine's Roma minority.

Now, in a university building turned temporary refugee center in Moldova's capital Chisinau, Kovach and other Roma are in limbo. Entire families live together in classrooms emptied of desks to make space for beds. Mothers find a quiet corner to feed their babies while older children fill time by playing card games in the hallway.

People who have travel documents can leave for other countries in Europe and beyond. People who don't cannot. Kovach, 35, doesn't have her passport - it got left back in Ukraine in the rush to evacuate.

When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in late February, she was visiting family in Kharkiv, in the north, and decided it was best to leave directly instead of traveling back to her home in Zaporizhzhia, in the southeast, to claim her documents. "For two weeks there was bombing," she says. "I was afraid to go [back]."

In the early days of Ukraine's war, undocumented people were able to pass through Moldova's borders easily, either via official crossing points or unfenced sections of the border. This made the country the most logical place for people to flee if they didn't have passports, and word of this option spread among communities where this was common.

Members of Ukraine's Roma minority, an estimated 400,000 people, are among the more than 6 million refugees who fled Ukraine since the war began. For many people from this ethnic group, crossing borders is complicated because they have no way to prove their nationality. "Most of the Roma are stateless," says Victorina Luca, a human rights lawyer and founder of Radio Patrin Moldova, a Chisinau radio program geared to the Roma community.

Stateless and stranded

Statelessness for Roma people is a multifaceted issue. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Roma communities in the region have been forcibly displaced by numerous conflicts. When new states were formed, people in the Roma minority lacked the required primary documentation to prove their birthplace and connection to the places where they were applying for nationality, which left them unable to claim citizenship there.

That statelessness is often inherited since undocumented parents face obstacles when registering their children in the country where they live. Some Roma have only birth certificates or passports left over from Soviet times. Others have no documents at all.

"It's partly systemic problems that plague people in poverty. It's partly the intricacies of Ukraine and [its] history," says Jonathan Lee, advocacy and communications manager at the European Roma Rights Centre, a human rights organization in Brussels. But on the ground, issues of statelessness are exacerbated by hostility toward Roma people at the registrar's office, he says. "That's the main obstacle day to day for getting IDs."

According to the United Nations refugee agency, the number of Roma people who are stateless or at risk of statelessness who remain in Ukraine is unknown. It's also unknown exactly how many have left Ukraine to seek protection elsewhere.

Efforts to help a uniquely vulnerable refugee community

In Moldova, the number of refugees before the war started was small. Last year, there were 405 refugees and 3,372 stateless people under protection from the U.N. refugee agency.

Roma people who managed to reach Moldova after fleeing Ukraine are staying in various official and makeshift shelters around this country of 2.6 million people. But since most don't have documentation to show they are Ukrainian, they are having trouble claiming aid, Roma advocates say, despite being one of the poorest segments of the refugee population.

Kovach is hoping to reunite with her daughter and mother, who fled to Romania. But without travel documents, she is stuck for now in Moldova. She says Moldova's border guards couldn't provide her with proof of entry, which she needs to leave the country.

Getting this group of refugees the information they need is especially difficult, Luca says, because many Roma are illiterate. Her radio program - broadcast in the Romani language - seeks to inform and empower Moldova's Roma population.

Official statistics from the most recent census, in 2014, record 9,323 Roma in Moldova, but Roma organizations say the true number is 10 times that. Since the war started, the radio program has supplemented its usual stories from Roma communities in Moldova with broadcasts sharing details about documentation, travel and rights of Roma asylum-seekers coming from Ukraine.

At a warehouse where volunteers organize and distribute bags of food and clothes, refugees must provide a Ukrainian identification number to claim supplies. Some Roma don't have ID numbers because they don't have passports or other identifying documents, but organizers say one is needed to make sure only refugees receive aid.

Luca personally delivers supplies to refugee centers and homes - things like flip-flops for people stuck in winter boots as the weather turned to spring.

"Right now, we transformed to [provide] humanitarian aid because there is a need," she says.

Roma refugees are kept segregated from others coming from Ukraine

The Roma minority has long been a marginalized group in Europe and the Ukraine war may only make things worse, says Marin Alla, the executive director of a coalition of Roma organizations based in the Moldovan capital. In Moldova, he says, limited funding from the state - one of the poorest in Europe - runs up against the personal biases of decision makers and average citizens, which leads to unequal treatment of Roma people.

In Chisinau, Roma, Azerbaijanis and people from other minorities are mostly housed separately from other refugees who arrived from Ukraine. "In this place, the condition is [worse]," Alla says of the official shelter where Roma stay. "This is discrimination."

Roma advocates say at certain points, unofficial shelters for Roma in Moldova lacked necessities like drinking water and mattresses. In other instances, they say, Roma communities were taken advantage of financially by people who offered them housing.

Ian Feldman, president of a council appointed by Moldova's parliament to protect against discrimination, says a segregated system for housing refugees in Chisinau was created so that Roma mediators could easily travel between government-supported shelters to help resolve disputes or documentation issues.

"If you look at what really lies behind this decision, you will see that it's basically logistics, optimization of resources and creating a culturally appropriate and friendly environment," he says.

Nonetheless, others insist segregation lends itself to unequal treatment. Elena Sirbu, a Roma mediator, says bias against her community in Moldova is widespread. Discrimination is apparent, she says, when institutions choose to ignore the specific challenges faced by this community. "They don't want to take this responsibility," she says. "No Roma, no problem."

The European Roma Rights Centre has documented cases of discrimination against Roma refugees in Moldova, Hungary and Ukraine. "In every sort of facet of how refugees are treated, there will be implicit racism and discrimination," says Lee, the group's advocacy director. "It's the sad reality of anti-gypsyism in Europe."

A history of persecution

When the war began, he says, members of some Roma communities in Ukraine fled because they feared there would be pogroms. Persecution against Roma people in Europe is well documented, especially during wartime.

In March, a group of 200 pro-Roma human rights organizations published a joint statement condemning the war in Ukraine and calling for humane treatment of Roma and other minority groups.

"From the Second World War to the Balkan Wars of the late 1990s, history has shown us that in times of war or conflict, the plight of Roma as well as other minorities is continuously ignored," the statement said. "Ethnic minorities are often rendered invisible and further victimised instead of being provided equal protection."

Hundreds of thousands of Roma were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. During the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s, Roma people were singled out, abused and killed during ethnic cleansing campaigns. Roma settlements have been damaged or destroyed by mob violence in numerous contexts in various countries in Europe since then.

For now, Roma staying in Chisinau say they're grateful. "We do not know what to do because of stress [but] at least we have someplace to sleep, and we thank them for that," says Raise Grigorievna Dreama, a Roma woman staying in one of the government-supported shelters in Chisinau with her daughters Malina, Madonna and Ramina, as well as her son Artem, his wife and their children.

Dreama's family of 12 do hold Ukrainian passports, but they lack the financial means and desire to continue to another country. Their Ukrainian village, near Odesa, is just a few hours' drive away from the shelter where they are staying.

They hope to find a house somewhere in Chisinau where they can live temporarily, with more privacy. Ideally, they'd like to return to Ukraine. "I want to go home," Dreama says.

Organizations assisting the Roma community are advising those without documents to apply for asylum in Moldova.

But for Roma like 29-year-old Peotr Romanovich Cherenovskii, formally becoming a refugee in Moldova would mean living apart from family members who've traveled on to other countries in Europe. That is a thought he can't stand.

Cherenovskii is from the Donetsk region of Ukraine, and says after conflict started there in 2014, he didn't get his passport renewed because he did not want to get conscripted to fight. He now has a new concern.

"My children, my wife, they are all in Romania," he says. "How can I get there?"

For now, the answer isn't clear.

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Roma refugees who fled from Ukraine to Moldova are now in limbo

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Many slipped across the border as the war began, but lack passports or other official forms of ID. They struggle to prove their eligibility for humanitarian aid - and to cross into other countries.

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Europe's Roma and Sinti people (often labelled as 'Gypsies' historically) were targeted by the Nazis for total destruction. The Porrajmos, or Porajmos, which translates to 'the Devouring', is the term used to describe the Nazi genocide of Europe's Roma and Sinti population.

Historians estimate that between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Many more were imprisoned, used as forced labour or subject to forced sterilisation and medical experimentation.

Roma and Sinti men, women and children were targeted for persecution and imprisonment, with a specific focus on clearing Berlin before the city hosted the Olympic Games in 1936. As World War Two began, the persecution of Roma and Sinti people intensified. Roma and Sinti people were deported to ghettos including Łódź and to concentration camps including Dachau, Mauthausen and Auschwitz-Birkenau; which had a specific 'Gypsy Camp'.

On 26 February 1943, the first transport of Roma and Sinti men, women and children arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the 23,000 Gypsies imprisoned within the camp, it is estimated that around 20,000 were murdered.

On 2 August 1944 the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Camp) at Auschwitz was liquidated: 2,897 Roma and Sinti people were murdered in the gas chambers and the remaining prisoners were deported to Buchenwald and Ravensbrück concentration camps for forced labour.

The experience of Europe's Roma and Sinti population has parallels with that of the Jewish people. Both populations were targeted on the grounds of their race and had previously suffered centuries of discrimination. The Nuremberg Laws which prohibited marriage between Jews and Aryans and enshrined the loss of citizenship rights were also applied to Roma and Sinti. As with Jewish children, Roma and Sinti children were banned from public schools and adults found it increasingly difficult to maintain or secure employment.

Despite the atrocities committed against Roma and Sinti people by the Nazi regime, their experiences were only fully recognised by the West German Government in 1981 and the Porrajmos is only now becoming more widely known.
Watch our short film about Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti people: Find out more:

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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Roma and Sinti people

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The Porrajmos, or Porajmos (translated 'the Devouring') is the term used to describe the Nazi genocide of Europe's Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) population. More than 200,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered or died as a result of starvation or disease. Many more were imprisoned, used as forced labour or subject to forced sterilisation and medical experimentation.

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A national charity that works on behalf of all Gypsies, Travellers and Roma. We offer advice, consultancy, promote health and wellbeing and contribute to research and policy making.

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Romaversitas | 5 November - International Romani language day

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100 phrases English / 100 fraze Romani čhib (Arli)

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Meet Florentina Chiriac (Police Constable)

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Meet Juraj Tancos (EU Migrant Workers Support Officer)

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Meet Barbora Turtakova (Assistant at a law firm)

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Inspirational Romani (Gypsy), Roma & Irish Traveller Women - A timeline

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Toby Gorniak MBE: 20 Years of Coaching & Mentorship

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Explore Toby Gorniak MBE’s transformative methods as a TEDx speaker, coach, and mentor with 20 years of experience. Empower and inspire change.

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Our education pack - Atching Tan: an educational journey into the world of Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers - is now available!

We're immensely proud of the pack and believe that it will be an incredibly valuable resource for helping children and young people across Key Stages 2 and 3 better understand the Traveller community.

It has been developed in conjunction with Travellers resident across East Anglia, as well as the expertise of the Traveller Education teams in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. We think that this means it offers the best of both worlds: it covers issues that are important to Travellers, but they are presented in a way that ties into the school curriculum.

There are nine key themes covered by the pack: identity; homes; travelling; education; work; entertainment; Romani; discrimination; and changes, hopes, and fears. Each theme has extensive teacher's notes as well as suggested lesson activities, and supporting resources that range from audio recordings to photographs and poetry.

The lesson activities have been designed to be both fun and challenging with clear cross-curricular links. They include a mystery-solving task, a role-playing activity, and a story-telling project. The pack can be used to form a discrete scheme of work for citizenship, or be used to support individual lessons in subjects including drama, English, geography, and history.

The pack is available as a download*. It doesn't cost anything, but we do ask that you give us some feedback!
Atching Tan: an educational journey into the world of Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers download version. * Please note the pack download is a 109meg zip file. Individual files are also available to download separately via MediaFire if you wish.

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Our education pack - Atching Tan: an educational journey into the world of Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers - is now available! We're immensely proud of the pack and believe that it will be an incredibly valuable resource for helping children and young people across Key Stages 2 and 3 better understand the Traveller community.

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roads from the past follow up lesson ideas

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This Learning Resource consists of introductory information about Roma. It consists of eight sections that can be used in Primary (KS2) and Secondary (KS3) schools, with teachers in higher and further education, other professionals and it might also be of interest to non-school audiences to build a broader understanding about Roma people.

Roma people are keen for non-Roma people, and their children, to learn more about Roma history and culture. The positive inclusion of this material in the school curriculum will help to overturn negative stereotypes and create positive relationships based on mutual respect and understanding.

The Learning Resource has been designed to be used in curriculum work focussing on, but not limited to:

British Values

Personal, Social, Health and Education (PSHE)

Rights Respecting Schools

English: Life Stories

History: Life in the Second World War

Geography: Journeys

Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month (GRTHM)

Developed through workshops with Year 5 children in Southern Road Primary School (London Borough Newham) and Year 6 children in Redbridge Primary School (London Borough Redbridge), this Learning Resource can be used as stand-alone sections or as a whole (look at Workshop Outline and Suggested Activities as an example), and can be adapted to suit the needs of individual classes.

Navigate Learning Resource

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Roma Oral History Learning Resource | Roma Oral History

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This Learning Resource consists of introductory information about Roma. It consists of eight sections that can be used in Primary (KS2) and Secondary (KS3) schools, with teachers in higher and further education, other professionals and it might also be of interest to non-school audiences to build a broader understanding about Roma people.

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Travelling Ahead - Children's Rights Toolkit

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Travelling Ahead - Children's Rights Toolkit

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Travelling Ahead Toolkit  Children's rights PDF Final

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Provision for secondary aged Gypsy Roma and Traveller pupils cy

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GRTHM June 2022 - Participation Pack for Schools - What makes a Home?

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GRTHM June 2022 - Participation Pack for Schools - What makes a Home?

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Make Some Space - GRTHM June  2021 Participation Pack

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Make Some Space - GRTHM June  2021 Participation Pack