05/07/2013
FSG
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) just published its 2012 Annual Report, in which it analyses the situation of the Spanish and European Roma community, and reports on the work of the FSG in 2012, the year which marked its 30th anniversary and was the most critical of its history.
Isidro Rodríguez, Director of the FSG, stressed that this was “A year in which the crisis has severely struck our organisation. We have suffered abruptly the effects of cutbacks and “fiscal restraint”. We have seen signed agreements and grants disappear, as well as a sudden reduction in financing for social projects”.
However, the number of persons using our services and the types of demands (support for more urgent and basic needs: information on social assistance, evictions, feeding needs, payment of utility bills) have increased significantly “while our capacity to respond to these needs was strained: fewer resources, far more and more urgent needs”, asserted Mr. Rodríguez. The crisis has affected Roma and other disadvantaged groups in a particularly severe manner, as reflected in the report The impact of the crisis on the Roma community, which will be published next week and shows that setbacks are taking place in all fields of Roma inclusion and may cause a reversal of the advances made in the past three decades.
“In spite of everything, our foundation has shown that the programmes and services that we provide are particularly useful in these times, protecting against exclusion and alleviating the effects of the crisis on many Roma families”, underlined Mr. Rodríguez.
In 2012, more than 104,000 persons benefitted from our 407 programmes. Furthermore, we achieved 3,734 job contracts and supported the access to employment of 2,589 persons through the Acceder programme.
The 2012 Annual Report includes the following data:
In spite of the crisis, the Acceder programme of the FSG achieved 3,734 job contracts.
Among other issues, the Report includes a summary of the institutional activity of the FSG, an assessment of the situation of the Roma community (the main events that took place in Spain as well as in Europe in that year in both graphic and textual formats), and the activity report providing information on our 13 different fields of work: Employment, Education, Housing, Social Inclusion (which gathers Health, Youth, Roma from Eastern European countries and Community-level Social Action), Equal Treatment and Gender Equality, International action, Communication, Documentation and Cultural Promotion. In addition, the Report provides specific information on the activity of the FSG in each of the 14 regions of Spain where it works as well as in Romania.
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