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A short film on Community Monitoring practice in Bulgaria showcases the results of community monitoring through ‘community inquiry’, including periodical consultation (twice in the year) with the local communities about the health services they receive and their quality.
This film developed by NeVo and Foundation Open Society Institute presents the process of Community monitoring on healthcare services implemented by Center Amalipe in Bulgaria with the financial support of Open Society Foundations. |
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Roma People in Bulgaria
The Roma are the biggest European minority counting more than 12 million citizens in the European Union. Within the EU, in Bulgaria the Roma are the two big ethnic minorities. According to population Census of 2011, nearly 3, 26,000 people declared themselves as Roma. Health status of Roma Community in Bulgaria
The health status of the Roma community in Bulgaria is significantly lower than the majority of the Bulgarian population. The national figures from Census 2011 in Bulgaria show that the life expectancy of ethnic Roma is 10 years shorter than the ethnic Bulgarians. In addition, 12.6% of the entire Roma population in Bulgaria including children has some kind of disabilities or suffer from a chronic disease. One third of the male Roma population and two fifths of the female population in the ages between 45 to 60 years have either partially or fully lost their full capacity owing to the poor health.atus. |
AMALIPE
Amalipe Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance is a leading Roma organization, working for the equal integration of Roma in Bulgarian Society. The organization plays a central role in organizing a Roma civic movement and advocating for Roma integration within the state institutions.Currently Amalipe runs nine projects within the sectors of: education, health care, social services and advocacy. Within these domains Amalipe works with a network of 170 schools all over the country to decrease the dropout rate of the Roma population, introduce intercultural education, promote life-long learning in the Roma community and raise the educational status of Roma. To know more about Amalipevisit: http://amalipe.com/index.php?nav=home&lang=2 |