INTRODUCTION After months of field research, the Budapest-based Manush Foundation has created a nine-month – one academic year – pilot project, which is designed to educate the socially disadvantaged youth especially Roma, and their teachers as well. Manush’s three-step programme, the „INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA EDUCATION PROJECT FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED TEENAGERS” – focuses on their potential and helps their integration into the information society as well as developing self-esteem and, last but not least, recognizing thecultural values of Roma and Non-Roma communities in relationto each other. |
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.:. Manush works mostly in Northern Hungary, where the population is about one tenth Roma. This was once a bastion of heavy industry. Over the past fifty years, the Roma were mainly employed as unskilled labourers in the steel industry and coal mines. After the political changes of 1989 these were largely shut down, causing widespread unemployment… |