“Roma Stories” is the Roma Support Group’s Roma Oral History Project. It is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and works with Roma researchers, local community members, London Metropolitan Archives, museums and academic institutions to explore, archive and share the unrecorded stories of Roma refugees and migrants in London.

With the Roma Stories project extended until late September, the various facets of the oral history research and archiving are coming together towards an affecting and evocative end result.

Over the past six months, we have finished conducting a second round of interviews with around forty members of the Roma community of London; we have translated and transcribed the majority of these and are now in the process of proof-reading, compiling documentary footage and preparing for the exhibition of the work in locations across the city, from the London Metropolitan Archives to Redbridge Museum and University of London.

Link: https://oralhistories170251790.wordpress.com/

The project team in cooperation with the field assistants held days of counseling and sharing of information regarding the legalization procedure in the Roma settlements in the municipalities of Kocani, Veles and Kichevo.

The meetings were organized within the project “Supporting Legalization of Roma Housing” aimed at informing the Roma citizens about the importance of the process and the procedure for legalization, as well as to present the project and the possibility of obtaining free legal aid in the procedure for legalization.

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union.

The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Association National Roma Centrum (NRC), Kumanovo and partner organizations Association Simbiozis 12 Kumanovo and Association ORM Bela Kula Kicevo, and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.