Albania Mobile school reaches the Roma children in the street
Project : TACT 24 Nov 2009
Greece*: “If the children don’t go to school, school should go to these children!” Ilias Huliaras, social worker from the NGO Arsis, is very proud to show the mobile school unit in operation in one of the poorest quarter of the city. “The first time I came here to propose the services of mobile school, I was proposed drug to buy! This quarter is very well known for drug dealing and even the police rarely come here. But very quickly, the interest for the mobile school was there and even young adults want to join the lessons to learn how to read and write.”
_Greece__Mobile_school_reaches_the_Roma_children_in_the_street_1.JPGThe principle is very simple: a chariot carrying billboards with adapted drawings and exercises for illiterate youngsters is installed in different places according to a precise schedule. The children come and learn the basics: read, write and count. A team of volunteers, all trained for this specific tool, welcome the children and organise the sessions according to the age and levels.
“*_Soon we will develop the same tool in Tirana_*, announces Natassa Arapidou, the Head of Arsis in Albania. The number of children, mostly Roma, who do not go to school is still very high. So the mobile school should be very adapted to the situation. We wrote the proposal and we are now expecting the answer from “Mobile School”, a Belgian foundation that provides portable schools for street children. This is very much in line with our membership to Dynamo, the world network of street workers, in which we are involved for more than two years now."
