Postcards

home is everywhere!

super [sleeping] mediators

nothing much to say. [thank you for the photos dubravka]

Campus Rom _ feb. 13th - 16th

We arrived at Campo Boario on 13th evening. The first night of sleep on caravans was not so good for almost of the students, in my case it was really cold (we didn’t know how to use the heating), it was a new life style for all but at the end everyone enjoyed the first days on caravans, living like real nomads.

On the next day we visited Salviati Camp during the morning and spent the afternoon and the night in Casilino 900. The first camp is organized with 45 containers where nowadays live 322 people. About 40% were born in Bosnia.
"The Casilino 900 settlement is populated by about 650 rom coming from the devastated area of ex-Yogoslavia. There are also Bosnians, Montenegrinos, people from Kosovo, Macedonians and Serbians, all brought together by the same ethical identity: rom people." For the first time each group of students had the opportunity to spend more time talking with the families and visit their houses. Each family has a closed space by fences and wood panels where we found the house, the fireplace, one or more caravans and some exterior toilets.
On February 15th we still had some time in Casilino 900, during the afternoon we visit the first gypsy church next to the Santuario del Divino Amore and in the evening we arrived at castel romano, the longest camp from the city centre. This camp is completely formed with containers and is the largest in Europe with 1060 rom guests.
The last camp was foro italico, a small camp where all families are related. This was the quietest camp and the one we had the opportunity to know better the people, the kids, the jobs and the organization of the houses.

This little journey resumes the first days of rome group, there is still so many things to talk about: group discussions around the fire, the movies, the story tailors, the gypsy dinners, and much more........
The final thought I would like to leave is that everyone realised that this situation around the city is a major problem than we initially thought; that is not only about the housing conditions but also about politics, economy, racism, nationality and roma and gadge relationship in Europe.

LIFE FROM BEOGRAD

Zdravo,
We've survived. For once we have the connection to the world wide web. We post you from Belgrade, the U.S. embassy has been attacked. But we're safely being hosted by Serbian Friends here. with some wine and pizza again.We were supposed to enter Serbia with kosovo, but when we arrived there were not any ....we need eat something else than pizza......we all catch a cold. ....roma...roman..ppl roma, ppl in rome, roma ppl belgrad, evicted roma ppl......I was in the group of demonstratiors, it excited me a lot with shaking hands, singing songs, shouting Kosovo je Serbia.cold.... hot... terorist...bagage... toilet..... bath.... coldagain but not really hot in here help me ...:) I am ok papa! but im not iranian! a trans-cultural reflection to localized stress... awaiting , anticipating... when can we go to sleep!
lets go to the fire !!! I am sorry but we have a change in plans. just close your eyes...

viva li zingari

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