Jai Bhim Network

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Jai Bhim Network invited me (Pardeep), Bharat and Swati to visit their school, organisation and participate in the various activities carried out by them for the betterment of  Gypsy/Roma community of Hungary. Gypsies/Romas are about 6-7% of total population of Hungary. They live the live in separate ghettos! Their lifestyle is alien to Hungarian people, despite they are living with them from about 700-1000 years. Gypsies/Romas have with social acceptability since the time they left India, probably around 1300 AD. They have been discriminated and prosecuted for centuries. They are the first to be suspected and booked in any crime and indiscipline. The word “Gypsy” is used as an insult to indicate “a cheat”. Very few Hungarian people seems to have actually met gypsies/romas, but they have all the stereotypes that these gypsies are dirty looking, cheaters etc. or they have seen them in movies only where gypsies/romas are shown as a degraded character.

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Due to our successes, more and more people get into contact with us. Many of them ask: how can they volunteer at us?

The two most important features of our institution, the Dr. Ámbédkar Secondary Grammar School, Vocational School and Elementary School for Adult Education, is that first, unlike other secondary grammar schools we focus on teaching Roma students and second, we employ approaches of reform pedagogy in our everyday work (Waldorf, Freinet, Mahatma Phule, Paolo Freire). For more information about our work please see: _______­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_____________________________

Our organization is entitled to host volunteers. If you would like to join our team, you can participate in the following activities: tasks related to preparation, data collection, administration, coordination, organization, communication, service or art falling into the scope of activities defined in the statutes of the Jai Bhim Network.

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Due to our constant success, more and more people get into contact with us. Many of them ask: how do we operate?

The first thing an outside observer notices is that while in other secondary grammar schools one cannot see Roma students, one can see at our school. It is also usually noted that approaches of reform pedagogy appear in our everyday work (Waldorf, Freinet, Mahatma Phule, Paolo Freire).

The founder of the Dr. Ámbédkar Secondary Grammar School, Vocational School and Elementary School for Adult Education is the Jai Bhim Network. The founder is an ecclesiastical organization, the school is ideologically committed. However, this commitment is not very similar to what we know from other church schools: e.g. there is no compulsory religious instruction.

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Dalit Buddhists meet Gypsies in Hugary

We are beginning the Dalit Buddhist volunteer program in East-European Roma communities in september 2009.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Here you are the whole project as it was planned two years ago:

A Roma and Dalit joint project IN HUNGARY

Brief outline of the proposal

1. Bringing 10 activists from Dalit communities in India to Hungary for one year to help train Roma/Gypsy activists

2. Running workshops and training camps for Roma/Gypsy activists.

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We have got amiable guests during July from Wales. Tina and Annamarie spent a whole month in our place. They came in order to get acquainted with the people in Sajokaza, present the Romas’ lives in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, in addition current situation throughout Hungary all/whole Hungary. First of all the two ladies took photos, documenting the Hungarian Gypsies’. They become popular very soon among the Romas because photographs got printed, and handed over to the people in the snapshots. They were taken of families, grandchildren, water carriers, the favourite horse, moreover, a tattoo had to be immortalized.

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