I was delighted that I was able to facilitate and contribute to a major feature in The Journal newspaper on Tuesday 21st January. As you can see on the dedicated Roma page (under the Community heading), A Living Tradition has been doing a lot of work with Roma in Newcastle and Gateshead.
It was great to see this work bear such positive fruit, last Tuesday, with a very fair article by Mike Kelly. To see the full feature go to: http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/news-opinion/mike-kelly-pride-prejudice-were-6535063
We live in dangerous times, with economic hardship helping to increase prejudice fuelled by those seeking some advantage from putting one-sided stories across to the public about asulum and immigration. The article helps to put the record straight; Roma I have met and worked with have been very decent people, who have come to the Northeast to escape terrible discrimination in Eastern Europe and just want a chance to work for themselves and a chance of a decent education for their children.
Hopefully this positive start to 2014 can continue.
Happy New Year to all our supporters!
It was great to see this work bear such positive fruit, last Tuesday, with a very fair article by Mike Kelly. To see the full feature go to: http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/news-opinion/mike-kelly-pride-prejudice-were-6535063
We live in dangerous times, with economic hardship helping to increase prejudice fuelled by those seeking some advantage from putting one-sided stories across to the public about asulum and immigration. The article helps to put the record straight; Roma I have met and worked with have been very decent people, who have come to the Northeast to escape terrible discrimination in Eastern Europe and just want a chance to work for themselves and a chance of a decent education for their children.
Hopefully this positive start to 2014 can continue.
Happy New Year to all our supporters!
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