joanna kostka: settlement, kamienskiego street, wroclaw
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NOMADA is a non-profit organization that combats structural discrimination and racism by promoting inter-cultural dialogue and challenging governmental policies and cultural norms that negatively impact vulnerable communities. Engaged in delivery of socio-economic support to the most marginalized groups living in Poland the organization seeks to uphold the universal human rights of every human being to education, health, housing and other social and cultural rights essential to human dignity and well-being.
Main Objectives:
• Build solidarity between people with different backgrounds and social status
• Break down stereotypes and prejudices
• Deliver comprehensive socio-economic support
• Promote empowerment of those excluded from all aspects of socio-economic life
• Develop new methodologies for coherent and sustainable integration measures
• Facilitate open debates about critical issues and developments in Poland
Settlement, Kamienskiego
Street, Wroclaw Romanian Roma Migrants – 80/100 persons
Residing in Poland – 4-10 years
Status - No registration permits, no formal employment, not involved in formal education, illegal occupation of public property
Settlement - no access to electricity, water and sewage
Houses – self-made from recycled material, self-made heating devices
City’s involvement – provision of water, portable toilets, garbage disposal
Lawsuit – commenced in November 2013/ ongoing
Proposition to create ‘working group’ composed of public authorities, NGOs, experts, Roma representatives
Intervention - one family re-located to standard flat, unclear process, resulted in failure
Settlement, Kamienskiego Street, Wroclaw
Settlement, Kamienskiego Street, Wroclaw
http://roma.nomada.info.pl/en/
Nomada’sInvolvement
Individual/Family assistance
Mediation
Awareness Rising
Empowerment
Intercultural cooperation
Integration Events
Human Capital Human capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in
the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value
• Roma – focus on deprivation (lack of education, unemployment, living conditions)
• Individual/Group capacities overlooked
• Cultural traits challenged or ignored
• Essentialism - living in ‘cultural silos’
• Roma constitute ‘target-group’ or ‘object of policies’
• Potential to ‘contribute’ limited
Good Practice or Good Process?
EMPOWERMENT
Motivation
Awareness
Reciprocity
Respect/Pride
Building on endogenous capacities
Overcoming ‘paternalism’, ‘patronization’, ‘superiority’
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak spent a day with Romani gypsies in his local community, finding out first hand what insults they’re fed up of hearing – and why they’re living proof that just like all of us, they’re so more than a stereotype
Housing Issues • Construction of self made housing – skills, imagination, functionality,
role division
• Attachment to ones dwelling – modernization/re-location controversy
• Understanding different ‘esthetics’
• Communal living versus individual living
• Motivation/Contribution – slow but positive process
Three Initiatives 1. “Baraca” - Ethnographic Museum in Wroclaw/Aleksandra Kubiak
2. “Stacja Wolimierz” Festival – Workshop Participation
3. “Do it yourself” – Izerska Cooperative/ cooperation
Project ‘Baraca’
Wolimierz festival
Izerska Cooperative
Thank You For Your Attention Joanna Kostka
NOMADA
Adress: ul. Paulińska 4/8 Wrocław 50-247 Polande-mail: [email protected]
office phone: 71 307 03 35