Name of the project: The Roma women from Don Benito. Women who dare to break the boundaries of stereotyping.
Begin: february 2023
Aim: empowerment of Roma women
Concept: Cándida Álvarez Guerrero and Cristina Messnik
Location: Don Benito/Spain
Content: This project aims to conduct empowerment workshops with Roma women, bringing them together in an appropriate space to develop their existing qualities while gaining new ones. Communication and exchange of opinions and experiences should strengthen them to better face and cope with the demands of the society in which they live. The exchange about experienced exclusion, discrimination and racism may make existing barriers in the access to the labor market and to good housing, barriers to active participation in social life more aware and rather enable to name them and to work on them. In addition, sewing and computer courses are held at the request of the women.
Objective of the courses: To expand knowledge and skills,
strengthening women's self-confidence and promoting them through empowerment.
How to collaborate
In order to carry out our activities with the Roma women we need economic and material resources. If you are an private person or a company and you want to support us in our social and educational project, please contact us: cristina.messnik@gmail.com
Thank you for your support!
Thanks to this collaboration it was possible to make a short film, to talk to the participants to give strength to the project, to fill it with life and to make the voices of women who want to express themselves heard.
Short film: