Central and eastern Slovakia. There are so many Roma settlements that we badly lack teachers, volunteers and missionaries. Without your help and God's grace, it will all be in vain.
None of this was thought up at a desk. This is how volunteers really come to us.
Games with the children in the settlement, a campfire, a trip. Along with that, firewood, the terrace and clothes. You stay in the mission house in Klenovec.
A target, hoops, chalk, a ball. In the settlement the whole street comes running.
To the lookout tower above Klenovec, to the meadow, to the fire. The children look forward to the volunteers very much.
Paint the terrace, chop wood, help with the building. There is always work to be found.
Donated things have to be gone through and stored by size. Then mothers from the settlement come to choose for their families.
Volunteers from Brno loaded one up to the roof in September 2022. What is needed most is children's clothing and trainers. What and where →
Photographs: albums of the volunteer weekends, 2021 and 2022.
Baking a cake, bricklaying, printing a T-shirt, counting. We have already had lessons in cooking, bricklaying and T-shirt printing.
Fr. Martin's book, 2023, pp. 37 and 38 krm.sk, report for 2021The parish in Markovce is looking for people to help with the children at weekends. 30 to 40 of them come regularly.
pravoslaviemarkovce.sk, 12. 6. 2026Translation, tutoring, administration and communication. Part of the work can be done remotely.
romamission.eu, Get involvedWatch the report together, pray for the children from the Roma settlements and tell others about us.
romamission.eu, Get involvedFour to eight people for one to two weeks, in spring or summer. →
Join and see what is happening right now. →
You can watch two talks right now.
A number is enough.
Míša, who looks after the volunteers, will call you. In a short conversation we will find together what suits you.
The Czech Television documentary about the mission is 26 minutes long.
Teach and play with the children. In February 2022 a week in Klenovec looked like this: lessons on Tuesday afternoon, games, prayers and lessons on Sunday, a bricklaying course from Monday to Thursday, a cooking course on Thursday.
Fr. Martin's book, 2023, pp. 37 and 38In the mission house by the Roma settlement in Klenovec there are guest rooms. The mission centres have accommodation for groups.
Book, 2023, p. 33 romamission.eu, MissionFor a weekend, or on a mission trip of one to two weeks, in spring and summer, in teams of 4 to 8 people. If you want to help regularly, we will agree on it by phone.
romamission.eu, Get involvedAnyone under 18 can, by law, be a volunteer only with the consent of a legal guardian and under the supervision of a responsible adult.
Act no. 406/2011 Z. z., § 3 para. 3On volunteer weekends the participants contribute to travel and shared meals as they are able; in May 2024 it was 1 300 to 2 200 Kč. For a longer stay we will agree by phone.
Volunteer weekends, invitation for May 2024This and other answers are among the frequently asked questions. →
The Slovak law on volunteering says that a volunteer is a person who, of their own free decision and without any claim to reward, does for another person, with that person's consent, an activity based on their own ability, skill or knowledge, and does it outside their work, studies and business. Act No. 406/2011 Z. z., § 2, par. 1
of the 825 municipalities with Roma communities are in the Košice, Prešov and Banská Bystrica regions.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 28people per concentration, if we take the middle value.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 31municipalities in the Atlas had a community centre in December 2018.
Atlas rómskych komunít 2019, p. 82What we teach and what to ask about on the phone. →
The mission's approach and how a parish can join. →
Gifts in new Roma settlements, and lessons afterwards. →
Monthly, or once. →
What helps most and where to send it. →
A scale of gifts, transparent accounts and contact. →
