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There are 15 Roma NGOs in Tuzla region. Each and every of them has their aims and activities, which sometimes overlap. Unfortunately, many organizations have no annual plan, but they work campaign-style, i.e. when they face a concrete issue. Reason for this kind of problem lays in the fact that they have not had a vision nor conducted any survey among their members in order to find out about their needs... More... |
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| Friday, 09 February 2007 | |
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Who are the Roma people of the Tuzla Canton?
That population has spent years working in the state-owned companies until year 1992. They started being fired then and 99,99% had been fired, not because they were bad workers, but because they were of some other nationality. There is no chance nowadays for Roma to be employed in state-owned companies. As for the education, the foreigners take care of that. Due to discrimination, schools were always far away from the Roma communities. It was a stereotype until 2001, when, suddenly, everyone started working with the Roma education. Thanks to FOD, EU Commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Roma NGOs, number of Roma enrolled in schools is increasing rapidly. 836 Roma children have been enrolled in primary schools in year 2006. Many of them have also been enrolled in high schools. As for higher education, only two people are studying at the university, both from Zivinice. Social and health care status of Roma in Tuzla Canton Roma people cannot obtain right to social and health care for multiple reasons; lack of personal identification documents, lack of interest of the government, lack of hope to attain the aforementioned, due to ignorant attitude of the officials. Employment The Roma of Tuzla Canton cannot get a job, although many of them have finished high school or university. These problems occur due to the general opinion people have about this national minority, and the reason for that is people not knowing the Roma background.
Lodging issues In many Roma communities in Tuzla Canton, you can still find people living in the cottages, sheds, without doors and windows, roof, etc. However, you will also come across many beautiful houses and many expensive cars. You will also notice many children going to school. Roma from all over the country have bought around 200 houses in Zivinice. Those are Roma from Vlasenica, Zvornik and Bijeljina. Roma people are landless people. They have been living here for centuries, but they inhabited the land illegally, and will never be able to legalize it as their property, although, in many cases, there is no legal owner of any piece of that land. They cannot obtain that right although they are citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the last legalization of the illegally built houses in Zivinice, Roma people could not have obtained that right, because the real owner of the land they were built on is still not known. |
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