We do not want to pretend we are the only ones. Others do excellent work before us and after us. We hold the years when school is decided.
Trained women from the communities themselves accompany the parents of the youngest children. They visit families at home, three to four lessons a day. 58 grandmothers in 36 communities, 1 102 children.
cestavon.sk, as of 12. 10. 202632 % of children from marginalized Roma communities go to kindergarten. Of all children, 75 %.
Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, 2020, p. 57Reading, writing, counting. Bricklaying and multimedia workshop. Play instead of boredom at weekends and in the holidays.
For 20 years they have supported gifted Roma children: a scholarship for the whole school year, a mentor of their own and tutoring.
divemaky.sk, as of 12. 10. 2026A two-year program: participants teach in primary and secondary schools where it is needed most, including Luník IX in Košice.
teachforslovakia.sk, as of 12. 10. 2026Families build their own legal and safe homes with their own hands: first they save at least 120 € a month, then they repay a loan for 18 years. Since 2016, more than 360 families in more than 38 villages; in 2025 the hundredth house was being built.
projektdomov.sk, 2025At the pastoral center in Poštárka they work with Roma youth and run the Blessed Zefyrín primary school with a kindergarten. The parish church also bears his name.
saleziani.sk, as of 12. 10. 2026It serves in 18 villages in four districts. Nine priests and more than 50 co-workers and volunteers.
romskamisia.sk, as of 12. 10. 2026Churches carry out pastoral work in 154 communities: the Roman Catholic Church in 85 villages, the Greek Catholic in 25, the Apostolic in 24.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 88A study by the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) from 2010 found 14 registered churches and 5 unregistered movements among the Roma. What it found → Ústav etnológie SAV, 2010, p. 24
The Atlas counted how many of the 825 municipalities had field services in December 2018. The Prešov region was best covered. In municipalities with a community of up to 200 people, field social work was there in only 16 %. Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, pp. 82 and 85
municipalities had field social work.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 82municipalities had health education assistants from the Zdravé komunity project.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 82municipalities had a local civil order service.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 82municipalities had a community center.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 82Churches, municipalities and organizations that have worked among the Roma for years. We write only what they have published about themselves.
The SAV study and the pilot research of the Omama program. →
From kindergarten to secondary school, and what we do about it. →
The mission's approach and how a parish can join. →
To teach and play with Roma children in central and eastern Slovakia. The first two years in the community are mostly games, and little by little there is more and more teaching.
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