What do you do?
The Children's Society has been working with the Roma community in east London for 13 years. My project works to raise awareness, which helps them feel proud of their culture and counteract any discrimination. Young people tell us they face bullying and some have been attacked outside of school. Most prejudice comes from ignorance and there has been a lot of negative media coverage.
How do you achieve this?
The Roma community values its culture and language, and I worked with young people on a project to produce a pinhole camera picture book. We took a Roma caravan fitted with a camera obscura to events and invited people inside to talk about the project. We used the picture book as a communication tool during Gypsy, Traveller and Roma month in June. We have also introduced media training, so young people can talk about their experiences. Roma pupils are among the lowest achievers in schools and part of the project was to change their relationship with books.
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