"After attending RIP training, my father encouraged me to create a new NGO to support marginalized Roma communities. It is not easy to find work that you love - I feel lucky." -- RIP small grant beneficiary

The Roma Integration Program works with communities in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia to improve standards of living, and to ultimately decrease unemployment levels and increase integration opportunities. The Roma Integration Program’s small grants’ program distributes $1 million over four years to support to education and social service projects. Through developing and implementing these projects, non-governmental organizations also improve their ability to write grants and manage programs, and to ultimately ensure their own growth and sustainability.

To date, the Roma Integration Program has approved funding for over 100 projects in the nine target communities, directly impacting 6,000 people and indirectly affecting thousands more. Grant programs focus on education, health, cultural activities, employment counseling, job skills training, and youth. Please click here to read an interview with Milena Adamová, a Roma Integration Program grantee.

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