Organisers and partners

The Association for Culture, Education and Communication (ACEC)

The Association for Culture, education and Communication (ACEC) is a non governmental organisation, the aims of which are to create understanding, support international cultural exchanges, deepen education and create space for the further continuation of mutual communication. As a part of its educational activities, ACEC focuses on the preparation and implementation of educational programs and communication strategies for socially challenged groups (education training and tutorial programs and projects focused on the Roma minority in Slovakia)

ACEC actively operates in the field and has been carrying out it’s activities in Roma settlements themselves since 2002 and is currently implementing two projects for the Roma community in some 75 settlements in eastern and central Slovakia

HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Healthy Communities is a project focused on widening health awareness and improving the health status of Roma in Slovakia Within the project there are 91 healthcare assistants and coordinators in the field, 102 general practitioners and 26 and paediatricians, the respective regional governing bodies and regions and schools. The project has a direct influence on the populations of the 68 Roma settlements – which represents 45 000 Roma inhabitants. The creation of a well functioning network in the field creates interest in cooperation on the part of other organisations - both in Slovakia and abroad – which deal with Roma issues and specific issues regarding Roma health. The following partners have actively become involved in the program: First aid centres, The Trnava university department of public healthcare, the University of Wisconsin department of Human Biology and Women’s Studies - Green bay, and Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia (PDCS).
A Healthy Communities case study (2008) has been put together in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in which the conditions faced by the program's target group - namely segregated Roma settlement inhabitants - are complexly described, along with the systematic work undertaken with regard to these issues via means of the implementation of the education program itself. The study is to be made available via the WHO website and includes the reasons behind the creation of the project, the social - economic and political context within Slovakia, specific methodology forms and uses as well as the results achieved and guidance ascertained from real life experience.
The Healthy Communities project was presented at the 9.- 10.10.2008 European Commission conference in Brussels – 'Communicating Health' in the social exclusion panel and How to reach everyone in an excerpt under the name of ‘inequalities: "Fieldwork with the Roma population as an example"

The YRAEF – The Young Roma Artist Education Fund
The Young Roma artist education Fund’ (an alternative program educating Roma children in settlements) has been active since the 1st of September 2005. the aims of the project are to support Roma youth potential, exemplify the value of education, motivate Roma students into going on to further education, contribute to the elimination of prejudice on the part of the majority population against the Roma minority and the social isolation of the Roma themselves. The project has been implemented since 2005 under the leadership of Vladimir Sendrei in the following regions: Jurské, Krížová Ves, Slovenská Ves, Vrbov, Klenovec, Hnúšťa, Stráne pod Tatrami, Podhorany, Kokava nad Rimavicou, Detva, Poltár and Rimavské Jánovce.

General partner:

Slovenské elektrárne Inc. , a member of the ENEL group

Slovenské elektrárne is the largest electricity producer in Slovakia and Enel is the largest energy conglomerate in Europe. Slovenské elektrárne and Enel are partners of renowned philanthropic institutes. Enel's industrial civic responsibility program is entitled energy for the country - energy for sport, energy for culture, energy for education, energy for the environment and energy for humanity. These are all energy activity areas which SA is also supporting in 2009 via the corporate social responsibility program in Slovakia The Gypsy spirit program falls under the Energy for humanity program.

Partners:

Respect APP
The National Centre for Equal Opportunities
Everyvent inc.
Intenda
Quatro

Media partners:

Slovak radio
The PEREX, MEDIAGE and
MECEM Roma press agency publishing houses
The American Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia

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