Where are we involved - Mission to the Gypsies in Ukraine - Education

Most children from the Gipsy villages do not attend schools so the illiteracy rate is high. There are many reasons why it happens but discrimination of the Roma kids is the main one.

In villages where there is a Christian community, a house of prayer is also built, which sometimes serves as a school building. Literacy classes for Gypsy children are organised in the houses of prayer, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Church of the Living God and the local education authorities.

Another barrier which separates children from education is poverty. When kids don't have shoes and clothes they will most likely not come to school in winter.

When they are hungry, they think more about food than about school. Children often get sick because of contaminated water.

To enable Gypsy children in Ukraine to attend school it is necessary to provide them with shoes, cloths, food, clean water, medicine and notebooks, to build schools and employ teachers...

BMA is involved in organising the education in three villages: Barkasowo, Wielkie Luczki and Czomonin. Thanks to the support received in 2006 we were able to build a house of prayer in Domboki.

800 zl (€ 200) – this is the cost of feeding and maintaining a twenty-pupil class per month. If you would like to help, please indicated that your gift is assigned as a help for Ukraine.



A road from the village Wielkie Luczki to the house of prayer and the school.