Hope for Roma Students

LDS Charities is providing educational materials for multiple Roma villages to increase the literacy rate.

Our NGO advised us that many Roma children are slow academic learners and most drop out of school by the 6th grade.

This problem leads to rampant teenage pregnancy, ninety-percent unemployment, and lack of hope. This housing is part of Lunik IVX in Košice and is considered the largest and worst Roma settlement in Slovakia.

The NGO, EPT, has researched tools that help improve the study habits of slow learners and discovered the Feuerstein Institute. The method helps students improve how they learn in an organized structured way.

The tools to combat this problem requires special worksheets and teaching aids. These teaching aids have been approved by John Hopkins University. 

Our NGO serves six Roma villages including the largest in Slovakia with over 5000 and half are young children.

Social workers operate in village community centers and has already been using this program for the four and five year old’s with high success rates. The plan is to now expand to students six through thirteen years with a promising goal of Roma youth graduating high school.

LDS Charities is excited to be partnered with this project.