ESC: Make a Change short term

Nevo Parudimos Association it’s a nonprofit apolitical organization which was founded by a group of teachers, Roma activists and Roma students from Caras-Severin county, in the south-west of Romania in 2008. The aim of the Nevo Parudimos association is to decrease the economic, social, educational and cultural differences in the society. Objectives of the Nevo Parudimos association are: - To develop activities which promote democracy; - To promote tolerance, diversity and equal chances in the society; - To create community development programs to fight against prejudices towards Roma people; - To increase the organizational capacity of Roma people; - To help Roma communities to develop their own competences and abilities to solve problems; - To develop professional, social, cultural, economic activities and civic commitment. Our activities are split in more fields like: education, culture, social work, community development, human rights, youth work and volunteering, as well as specialized internships for students of Social Work department in Eftimie Murgu University. In the youth work field our activities are in most cases connected with the other activities of the NGO. Until now we have implemented 16 Youth in Action/Erasmus + projects as coordinators and we have on going other 6 from which 3 are strategic partnerships one on youth and two on adult education and one it’s an EVS project. All our youth projects have as beneficiary disadvantaged young people: Roma young people, youth from foster care, youngsters from rural area and youth coming from very poor communities. We were involved as partners until now in more than 70 youth projects, where we sent participants with fewer opportunities coming from very poor and disadvantage communities from small groups up to 35 people groups.