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| 04 Mar 2009 11:43 |
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An article about Rissvoy Scarrott, How she has worked to educate herself and raise her daughter Annabella.
It is in the magazine "that's life" 5th March 2009, and is well worth reading it shows a Romany woman with real determination to improve her life. |
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| 04 Mar 2009 12:38 |
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Hi JFC and thanks for the info nice to see a Romany doing well!!
I managed to find a story from a Web site :-Celebrating Success in the West Midlands.
Rissvoy Scarrott: Award presented by: Mary Dunleavy,
Care Services Improvement Partnership, West Midlands.
Nominated by: Evesham and Malvern Hills College: Email: smorris@evesham.ac.ukA
A life of picking damsons and hop tying sounds idyllic if you are a child, but for Rissvoy the poor school attendance resulted in a lack of important life skills.Rissvoy’s partner encouraged her to attend college. However,the break-up of this relationship and the move to a new house in Worcester, with her elderly mother and disabled daughter,might have tempted her not to continue. But she didn’t give up;Riss continued to attend Malvern Hills College, even though this meant travelling a significant distance.By attending college at least four times a week, her tutors noticed a marked difference in her self-confidence, self-esteemand motivation, which have all improved dramatically. She has joined the Family Learning Group, has taken part in the BBC’sRaW ‘Six Book Challenge’, and is now better equipped to manage the household bills and money matters.‘My learning has made a big difference to my life,’ Riss says. ‘Mydaughter uses a computer a lot and I now understand them.Joining the cookery class has helped me to understand why you need to eat lots of vegetables and I now give my daughter much better food.’
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Victor
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| 04 Mar 2009 20:49 |
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Funny I have just finished writing about this subject,on romani roots, web side,the question was, how to be educated in a world full of discrimination, well you are one example, and so are my sons and daughters, you fought very hard and eventually you got, what you wanted out of life, but unfortunately we are the lucky ones,I say this because there still ecxist Roma/Gypsies who just don't want to send their chidren to Schools, for being so ignorent. but I wrote again and again on this site the J.F. that the key to our freedom of discrimination, and the hate that still ecxist in E.U. for us is education, with edcation we can write petitions to the U.N.the Human rights to help us and those people in Italy and the Balkans, to get them out of the Ghettos, and try and give them a decent life
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An article about Rissvoy Scarrott, How she has worked to educate herself and raise her daughter Annabella.
It is in the magazine "that's life" 5th March 2009, and is well worth reading it shows a Romany woman with real determination to improve her life. |
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Hi JFC and thanks for the info nice to see a Romany doing well!!
I managed to find a story from a Web site :-Celebrating Success in the West Midlands.
Rissvoy Scarrott: Award presented by: Mary Dunleavy,
Care Services Improvement Partnership, West Midlands.
Nominated by: Evesham and Malvern Hills College: Email: smorris@evesham.ac.ukA
A life of picking damsons and hop tying sounds idyllic if you are a child, but for Rissvoy the poor school attendance resulted in a lack of important life skills.Rissvoy’s partner encouraged her to attend college. However,the break-up of this relationship and the move to a new house in Worcester, with her elderly mother and disabled daughter,might have tempted her not to continue. But she didn’t give up;Riss continued to attend Malvern Hills College, even though this meant travelling a significant distance.By attending college at least four times a week, her tutors noticed a marked difference in her self-confidence, self-esteemand motivation, which have all improved dramatically. She has joined the Family Learning Group, has taken part in the BBC’sRaW ‘Six Book Challenge’, and is now better equipped to manage the household bills and money matters.‘My learning has made a big difference to my life,’ Riss says. ‘Mydaughter uses a computer a lot and I now understand them.Joining the cookery class has helped me to understand why you need to eat lots of vegetables and I now give my daughter much better food.’
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| 03/04/2009 8:49 PM |
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Funny I have just finished writing about this subject,on romani roots, web side,the question was, how to be educated in a world full of discrimination, well you are one example, and so are my sons and daughters, you fought very hard and eventually you got, what you wanted out of life, but unfortunately we are the lucky ones,I say this because there still ecxist Roma/Gypsies who just don't want to send their chidren to Schools, for being so ignorent. but I wrote again and again on this site the J.F. that the key to our freedom of discrimination, and the hate that still ecxist in E.U. for us is education, with edcation we can write petitions to the U.N.the Human rights to help us and those people in Italy and the Balkans, to get them out of the Ghettos, and try and give them a decent life
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