A Gipsy is your Neighbour” Programme: re-discovering national heritage

The ‘A Gypsy is your Neighbour’ Programme, includes a mixed Roma-Jewish pilgrimage to south Poland, children’s trips, PE classes and swimming made available that meets the needs of Roma females. A project launched by MFSC in Lublin called “Save Haven” aims at creating the so-called “protected flats” for refugees. Families living in such flats will be assisted by the so-called “family assistant”, a trained social worker whose aim is to help the family in leading an independent life.
There are also other activities included in the project:
• education and integration activities for the inhabitants of the districts;
• intercultural classes in district school;
• reportages in the local press on refugees advances in integration with local community and adaptation to independent life.