
Some of the highest rates of exclusions from Derby’s schools are of girls from the Roma community – yet they want to be at school, and get an education. Why is there […]
Some of the highest rates of exclusions from Derby’s schools are of girls from the Roma community – yet they want to be at school, and get an education. Why is there […]
Michal Daniel, left his home in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, with his parents and siblings, when he was 7 years old. They were living in a Roma ghetto, with little prospect […]
Guest Author: Ruth Richardson – Youth Worker; Multi-Faith Centre (Roma Community Care) The youth club in Peartree was established over four years ago and since then has been engaging upward of sixty […]
Guest Author: Ruth Richardson – Youth Worker; Multi-Faith Centre (Roma Community Care) Whether it is covert, or overt, the young people of Peartree are routinely experiencing racism. Many of the children and […]
“Vermin – deport” was the response to an article I posted (July 25th 2015) on the Roma Community Fun Day in the Arboretum and Normanton Neighbourhood Group Facebook Page last week. […]
Roma Community Care ( led from the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby), in conjunction with Reverend Elizabeth Pinder-Ashenden of Pear Tree Baptist Church, put on a Fun Day in Arboretum […]
2014 is the 10th Anniversary of the Multi-Faith Centre based in the grounds of the University of Derby. There was a “Reflective” event a few months ago, which presented perspectives, throughs and […]
There are many difficulties facing people from new and emerging communities within Derby and conversely many challenges that the City’s institutions face in ensuring that the new arrivals can become properly settled. […]
For anyone who is familiar with the plight of the Roma people, would be surprised to find the words ‘Roma’, ‘community’ and ‘care’ in the same sentence let alone in the title […]
Petra, a Roma girl from Plzen in the Czech Republic, remembers her school days. “We were scared to go to school , they were waiting for me at the gates. They used […]
Derby City Council (DCC) has been sponsoring a short project in conjunction with Roma Community Care (RCC) to increase the health awareness for the Roma people in the Normanton area. Today was […]
Derby recognized Roma Nation Day on Sunday. It is a day for people to understand and celebrate that the Roma people are a Nation, but a Nation without a home. Despite this […]
Roma Nation Day was born in 1990 at the 4th World Romani Congress with the objective of celebrating Roma culture and raising awareness of the issues that face the Roma people throughout […]
The Governments strategy to placate the populist backlash over so-called “benefit-seeking” Euro-migrants as well as exploiting every opportunity to save money , involves a collection of benefit changes which will be fully […]
In the upstairs room of the Pear Tree Baptist Church, “The Club” which consists of 50 or so local youngsters, predominantly from the Roma community, were enjoying a traditional “pancake flipping” race […]
Milan Duzda arrived in Derby 8 months ago from Slovakia. He is 21 years old, has a wife and a young family and is Roma. Other members of his family were already […]
Letter to Derby Telegraph. Barbara Wiltshire’s Soapbox “There is no room and no jobs, so what is so attractive to migrants” neatly summarises many of the myths and prejudices that seem to […]
On February 13th at the University of Manchester a panel discussion took place which consisted of: Rt Hon David Blunkett, MP Dr Michael Stewart, University College London, Dept of Anthropology Carol Powell, […]
Letter to Derby Telegraph. In the week following Holocaust Memorial Day on the 27th January we heard many stories from people with personal insights into genocides and racism under the theme of […]
Dear Sir / Madam I read with stunned disbelief the comments made by a number of people about the £118,000 contract awarded, by the Council, to JET to support people in the […]