The EQUAL Project Activities Are Underway!
As part of the EQUAL project, two Community Empowerment journeys have been launched, addressed respectively to members of the Roma and Sinti community and the migrant community. The goal of the empowerment activities is to strengthen knowledge and skills within marginalised communities by providing tools, information, and training to help people understand and defend their rights, and to engage with legal professionals and fundamental rights bodies.
These consist of two cycles of ten sessions on transformative justice, built on the lived experiences of members of both communities. The workshops are spaces for dialogue, listening, and transformative conflict, designed to deconstruct dominant narratives, address fractures – both internal and external to the communities -, and build practices of self-representation and community advocacy. The empowerment journeys were created with the intention of fostering a safe space, consisting of small groups and moments of sharing, guaranteed through collective social gatherings which promote mutual understanding, self-determination, and the collective construction of real possibilities for change, starting from those who experience these injustices every day.
At the heart of the workshops are reflections on the intersectionality of everyday systemic oppressions, denied rights, and the normalised violence of the system, exploring experiences across school, work, the domestic environment, and health. The sessions welcome small groups, to create a safe, intimate, and respectful space where every lived experience is both political knowledge and daily life practice. A journey designed exclusively for members of the communities, to guarantee a horizontal space for sharing.
It is still possible to participate in the final scheduled activities!
Transformative Justice Workshops for the Roma and Sinti community
April 17 – 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, at LSA Centocelle
Self-Advocacy Workshop: strengthening self-protection against discrimination and injustice in Italy and across Europe affecting Roma and Sinti communities. How to defend your rights, claim your space, and make your voice heard by changing unjust laws.
Facilitated by Daniela Ionita
May 16 – 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM, with a shared lunch at 1:00 PM, at LSA Centocelle
From invisibility to recognition: anti-Gypsyism and memory (morning)
Countering anti-Gypsyism: critical tools in the context of schools, media, and society (afternoon)
Facilitated by Eva Rizzin
Transformative Justice Workshops for migrant and refugee communities
April 18 – 11:00 AM–4:00 PM, with a shared lunch at 1:00 PM, at Casa del Popolo di Torpignattara
Right to dissent and participation: workshops to share practices for resisting oppressive and institutional dynamics that limit meaningful participation in decision-making for people with migrant backgrounds.
Self-Advocacy Workshop: strengthening self-protection against discrimination and injustice in Italy and across Europe affecting people with migrant backgrounds. How to defend your rights, claim your space, and make your voice heard by changing unjust laws.
Community advocacy tools and practices: how people with migrant backgrounds can organize, defend their rights, and build pathways of transformative justice together through networks.
Facilitated by Daniela Ionita
To register for the final activities, send an email to info@cild.eu.
Thanks to the EQUAL project, these community empowerment activities are also taking place in the Czech Republic, Greece, and Hungary, involving Roma and Sinti communities, migrant communities, and people with disabilities in the regions where the project’s partner organisations operate.
For more information, visit the project website: https://www.bridge-eu.org/equal and follow us on LinkedIn.
The EQUAL project is co-funded by the European Union under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme.
