Education: Today, there are still 68% of Roma who leave education early, while the Europe 2020 early school leavers target is 10%. In addition only 18% of Roma children transit to higher levels of education and the absenteeism and early-school leaving rates of Roma are significantly higher than for other categories of pupils.

Employment: 43% of Roma are in a form of paid employment. In addition, 63% of young Roma are not in education, employment or training.

Health: Almost a quarter of Roma people have no national health insurance

Housing: Roma often live in areas where most neighbours are Roma too. In addition, a third of Roma households do not have tap water, just over half have an indoor flush toilet or shower and 78% of Roma live in overcrowded households.

Fighting discrimination and antigypsyism: Roma are still discriminated against across the EU: for instance, 43% of Roma experience discrimination when trying to buy or rent housing, Roma are not aware enough of their rights in terms of equality and need to build more trust in law enforcement authorities.

Link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/factsheet_roma_integration_strategies_report_2019.pdf

As part of the implementation of a new special program "Pedagogical Assistant for Primary Education Students", which will aim to train candidates for successful work with primary education students.

They will need to work with students who show lower learning success to help enroll students in primary education and teach primary school students to master the curriculum.

In this context Association of Roma Business Information Center in Macedonia – ARBICM in cooperation with MLSP in - Department of Labor Law and Employment Policy, Center for Vocational Education and Training from Skopje and Center for Adult Education informed that everything is ready applicants for Pedagogical Assistant to begin their training.

Anyone who successfully completes the training will receive a diploma for this standard occupation - "Pedagogical Assistant", and in the future will be free to apply for new employment in that field.