More about "Djanes" project
This is a media project of the Roma youth organization "ARCA". It includes news of the Roma community in Ukraine, interviews and life stories, interesting facts designed to break stereotypes.
Djanes

Stories of Romani teachers who have made their dream come true
Memories of one’s school life bring about bright emotions in many people. That was the period when you met your first friends, when you experienced your first joy about your success and sometimes also your first struggles with your difficulties. When the grade you received defined your life. And many other pivotal moments, too. And all the way, your teachers are by your side. Not only are they teaching you but also directing you and sometimes even reprimanding you. Ahead of the 1st of September, Jianes has decided to share the stories of two pedagogues of Romani origin with its readers.

There are instances whereby Romanis are discriminated, but that doesn't constitute institutionalized
Yulian Kondur, project co-ordinator of the international charity organisation «Romani women’s fund «Chirikli», recounts about challenges the activists had to encountered after the onset of full-scale war, about his civic activity on the international level and about his own way in activism.

Stories of Romani health care professionals who have managed to make t
Stereotypes and bias are components of every person’s life. It is mostly stereotypes that give rise to erroneous attitude towards ideas and phenomena, and often also make people come to wrong conclusions about a person or about an entire group. Romanis are a community pending development; a community that is non-homogeneous. Romanis of different professions, though, face stereotypes even today. Journalists of the “Jianes” mass media outlet have talked to Romani health care professionals from different parts of Ukraine and have gathered their stories.
Also in this section:
- Інший – не означає ворог. Як змінити ставлення до ромської громади?
- Roma people in Ukraine: ‘heroes’ of criminal reports or full-fledged citizens?
- David Stulik, diplomat: «Regardless of which ethnic group a person belongs to if he or she is defend
- Romani Artist Natali Tomenko: “Art Provides a New Perspective on This Time”
- Roza Tapanova: «The task of our institutions is to work with senses»
- Чому ми боїмося ромів: коріння стереотипів та як з ними боротися
- «The matter of non-supporting ethnic minorities should be ruled out altogether», – Oleksandr Osipov
- Як ромська мова з'явилась у Перекладачі. Або історія ромки, яка працює в Google
- The Melody of Mother Tongue: How Romani children get to know themselves through words
- "We have never been taught our history. It has always been told to us through the prism of Russian c