- TORINO - ivana has 18 years, attended the institute last year Bosso-Monti, you want to enroll at the University, one year has an Italian boy.
"My boyfriend's family is from Calabria and his mother thought I was Sicilian. I explained that they are Roma. Unfortunately, the injury resists, afraid that I am looking for a "good match". " Ivana is one of the young women who have been 'Idea Rom', an association for women who want to work for true integration in order not to fall on the head of the Roma are often unnecessary and expensive projects that people - especially to those still in camps - not bring benefits. "Idea Roma" also helps people included in the work, to do outing.
"Our people continue to hide, even in jobs where workers for years and is appreciated, dares not mention its origin. The Roma have always been portrayed as dirty, liars and thieves, so it happens that even school children and their mothers do not tell what is their reality, "says Vesna Vulatic, Roma cultural mediator in the early nineties. Vesna, along with ten other young women, gave birth in autumn to 'Idea Roma "in the belief that the time has come groped for something different than what has been done so far. "We went to the Prefecture and we had a good response of interest, we met Councillor for Social Policies of the Province Puglisi and this week we will see the local councilor Borgione. Meanwhile, in October we started a project to promote the integration of children and the training of teachers in schools with the highest concentration of Roma, Leonardo da Vinci to Falchera.
Last Saturday, at the headquarters of the "Clear Regis', the study center on non-violence and intercultural housing association, the women recounted their experiences. All are united from having left the camps years ago - "something that would make most people who still live in camps," says the mediator -, have a job, presented with an image modern, in contrast to the traditional Gypsy woman.
"I want to subscribe to Science Education for work with Roma children," says Ivana. "I've never hidden my roots, since the primary when studying history, there was talk of the Roma people. Usually, through personal knowledge, the effect disappears. But my parents, at work, they have never said. My father wrote a book of poems and a culture for Roma children, but has to hide, can not afford to miss this place. "
Ljubica Vesna and her sister work in a cleaning company, the first in the central registration offices for ten years, the second in a kindergarten. "After eight months of job exchange - says Vesna, who has two children attending a Catholic school - I was hired for an indefinite period." Vesna Vulatic explains: "Unfortunately, in recent years to find work have not gone forward as it did in the days of Ljubica or Vesna. Today, the selection for the bags work even takes into account the 'look', if you're facial features clearly dropped rom six departing. " And speaking of discrimination, "my son - said Ljubica - works in a machine shop, when he obtained Italian citizenship has given up the Serb."
Citizenship awaits you in a few months even Francesca, 17, born and raised here. "For years Falchera to live, before we were to camp dell'Arrivore. I came second only to the media but I'm going to take the license with courses for adults. " Francesca is his young aunt Zana, 21, and Romina, 17. "We left the curriculum in various places," says Zana. "I have already worked in black maid. It is not important the type of work, the important thing is to find. " Zana Romina is that when they talk about themselves, do not ever specify their origin.
"We say 'slave'" says Romina. Speaker Vesna, who with her two daughters. "But even" slave "does not like ... My daughters do not know Serbian, with grandparents non si capiscono. Dopo tanti anni continuiamo a rinnovare il permesso di soggiorno, ma loro sono nate qui. Un giorno saranno cittadine italiane. Spero che quel giorno non siano più considerate straniere».
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