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A Monthly Periodical of The Roma Inclusion Office The Roma Decade in AP Vojvodina no. 39, june 2014. A Monthly Periodical of The Roma Inclusion Office no. 39, june 2014. Photo of the month: Consultative Meeting regarding the Strategic Document of the Office The founder and the Publisher of the INTRODUCTION Periodical: The Roma Inclusion Office of the Government of AP Vojvodina Dear Readers, Editor in Chief: Duško Jovanović Here is the June issue of our monthly publica- tion. This issue starts with the Employment section Managing Editor: Aleksandra Mićić in which we present to you Tatjana Jovanović, a young Roma woman who got a job at a pharmacy in The Team: Inđija after high school. Dragana Rajić In the Housing section we talk about the best- Tijana Čubrilo organized Roma settlement in Apatin, and settle- Jovana Davidović ment Rupe in Ruma, which is its complete opposite, while for our Education section, we interviewed Correspondents: Dobrila Pejin, coordinator of the project “Children’s Ferenc Koso Center”. Roma Coordinators of APV In June, the Roma Inclusion Office held two con- Ivana Koprivica sultative meetings related to the development of the strategic document of the Office for the period Translation into Roma: 2014-2017. Igor Dimić We attended a training of the youngest cricket Translation into English: club in Serbia in Monoštor. The section dedicated to Ana Kozlovački Culture gives you three texts, and we specifically single out the article Fighting Windmills, about an Technical Preparation and Printing: influential Romani poet and a fighter for the rights MONDO-GRAF, Novi Sad of Roma, Jovan Bogdanović. www.mondograf.co.rs We spoke about the only president of a country of Roma origin, in the Roma in the World section. Circulation: We inform you that, thanks to the Research and 1000 Education Center and to the Preschool Teacher Training College, “Mihailo Palov” in Vršac, you can Address: Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 25, follow our publication in electronic form, available 21000 Novi Sad at www.rec.org.rs/bilten/. Your editorial board Employment A ROMANI WOMAN - PHARMACIST FROM INĐIJA Tatjana Jovanovic with co-workers Tatjana Jovanović, got a job at a pharmacy of Health Center “Dr Milorad Pavlovic Mika” in Inđija, through the Office for Roma Inclusion AP Vojvodina, and after a completed medical High School education. 2 e Roma Decade in AP Vojvodina Employment the Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad. Continued education will bring her better and easier future because to hold a job invol- ves constant work on yourself, additional training and education. What she is particularly loo- king forward to, is that her exam- ple will be a motive to her younger brother to go to school and get educated. “This opportunity I was given is very important to me. I am first thankful to the Roma Inclusion Office for providing the initiative for my job, as well as to the director of Health Clinic and to the chief of Pharmacy who have embraced this initiative. I have done my internship here, and am happy now that I also got a job here”. A dream come true “My dream and the dream of my family has been realized. My daughter got a job after high school. I’ve never had a dilemma when it comes to the education of my children. I am aware that this is the only way. I hope that my daughter will further continue her educa- tion.” Saša Jovanović, the father Parental support is necessary “I am happy that my daugh- ter justified the trust and supp-ort given to her by the Province and the Republic. In both elementary An excellent student in ele- way. Although she often experien- and high school, she was one of mentary, and high school, Tatjana ced, as she says, difficult times the best students. If she wants to Jovanović has revealed that Roma through education, she never gave continue her education, we will men and women have the same up. She’s happy now because her not get in the way. We will support her because it is our most impor- abilities as everyone else, and just efforts paid off. This position will tant role.” should be given a chance. She used allow her to help her family, but Nada Jovanović, the mother her chance in the best possible also to continue her education at The Roma Decade in AP Vojvodina Employment Leader in the field of A shining example primary health care “This young girl, she realized the importance of education. Health Center “Dr Milorad She says it was not easy, but did not give up. She used the incenti- Pavlovic Mika” in Inđija is one ves that provided by the Republic and the Province in terms of aff- of most successful health insti- tutions in Serbia. It is an exam- irmative action. ple of how to successfully meet This young person is not the only one that has found her posi- the challenges posed by the EU. tion in the health center. We hired just over a year ago a Roma Vasa Petrović MD, director woman as nurse in this institution. This is the message that the of the institution, said that it institution should send to the Roma: “Educate yourself, go to has been the bearer of quality in primary care for the past 20 school, and you will get a chance.” years: What this example shows, as well as many others, is that the “What we believe in are Roma in Inđija, and in the whole province get the chance to be the people. All of our employees educated, trained, and then to find employment. Poverty, there- have completed some form of fore, should not be an excuse for the lack of education. It is the training. motivation for education and training. Only in this way can we get We managed to finish the procedure of Accreditation in a out of the vicious circle of poverty. Education is the only way and short period of time from May there is no dilemma. to September. Out of 585 para- Of course, you must have the cooperation of institutions, meters, we had about 98% done because without it, even this young person may not be here today. greatly. In addition, Roma must be part of the institutions. That is the case We have set new parame- in Vojvodina, but, unfortunately, not at the national level. ters in the system of security. The essence of accreditation is Roma are partners nowadays, and that is what the institutions just that, patient safety, and have to understand. There is a other way. safety of all of our employees. Roma in the province promote the system which could be defi- What we continually ned as: “Nothing about us without us”! We have a voice here. We emphasize is that only invest- make a team together with everyone else. ment in people can bring qua- This is a shining example. A Roma woman got a chance. Since lity. We organize trainings each week. In addition to our she was one of the top students in both the elementary and in high employees, citizens of Inđija school, we hope that this opportunity will be justified”. also attend the trainings, as they have recognized our insti- Ninoslav Jovanović, Coordinator for Roma Issues, Municipality of Inđija tution as a place where they can learn new elements about their health. We promote a healthy lifestyle - healthy eating and exercising. Proper health care system is based on three principles: equal accessibility, quality and speed. We are proud to say that we meet all three parameters. What we planned for the future, and have already started to implement is the preventive medicine. We are an institution with the highest number of checkups in comparison with our population. On our health bazaars, more than 30 thousand people have been checked up out of the total 50 thousand people”. At work Jovana Davidović The Roma Decade in AP Vojvodina Housing LIFE? The humanity goes forward every day. New ideas are born, new inventions are made. A list is made of the first space tourists. People around the world have the opportunity to purchase their star and give it their name. But in one place, the time has stopped in the forties. Forty families live in the settlement Rupe in Ruma. In 21st century, without the electricity, water, sewer, bathroom, paved roads, street lights, alone and forgotten, they fight for their mere existence. We bring you stories of inhabitants of this settlement that will leave no one indifferent. “Everything always to us. We turned our to our Mitar already dirty and messy even remains only at the level Tadic, but there is almost no coo- before they leave the settlement, of promises” peration with him. We approached and this creates shame for them everyone. We even called the and thy do not want to go to According to Sinisa Medic, media. As we learn, this is not the school. It is still okay now, but resident of this neighborhood are case in other municipalities. We when it rains it is much worse. At living in terrible conditions. They submitted a request for assistance the time of the heavy rains and don’t get help from anyone, he to the mayor, and even protested flooding, you couldn’t even enter says, not even from the municipa- in front of the municipal buil- the settlement”. lity nor the coordinators. ding”. According to her, several years “Everything we get during the ago, it was organized for the inha- year is one package of food, consi- “No one cares about us, bitants to go to the municipality sting of rice, a couple of cans of we are forgotten” to give their signature for eviction: ready-made food.

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