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PROJECT THREADS Thread 1. Empowerment and participation Thread 2. Access to social protection rights Thread 3. Increase wellbeing Thread 4. Safer communities Thread 5. Social cohesion Thread 6. Social identity through cultural participation Thread 7. Access to quality education Thread 8. Employment opportunities Thread 9. De-segregation and housing situation Thread 10. Raise awareness

PROJECT PROMOTER AND PARTNERS

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Supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014, in the frame of Poverty Alleviation. www.norwaygrants.org

INCLUSION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS IN CLUJ METROPOLITAN AREA, INCLUDING THE DISADVANTAGED ROMA WHAT IS PATA- CLUJ?

OUR VISION

Pata-Cluj is a social intervention project which uses an integrated approach to social inclusion. The aim is to prepare the social inclusion of the communities located in the Pata Rat and Cantonului area, the most vulnerable population of Cluj Municipality and partly of the Cluj Metropolitan Area. This is done through a multidimensional approach, using interlaced project threads to: • Increase the community’s participation in the mainstream society • Prepare desegregation and improvement of the housing situation • Enhance access to education, creative development and vocational qualification • Improve access to health care services • Improve employment situation • Increase access to social services and improve community security

Our vision is on the one hand to assist the communities in Pata Rat to have a better quality of life and have an overall better control of their own lives, starting from their living conditions, their education and employability, to their interactions and collaborations with the local authorities.

On the other hand, mainstream public services (education, social assistance, employment, health care) will be better prepared to reach out for the most vulnerable groups in the society and to deliver culturally sensitive services.

Published: April 2016

ABOUT PATA RÂT Pata Rat area is a spatially segregated informal urban settlement, in a condition of multiple deprivations near the city landfill, where currently approx. 300 families are living. The 4 settlements in the area were formed mostly after repeated evictions of poor, mostly Roma families from central areas to the city-outskirts, combined with immigration from the nearby villages in order to find means of survival in the landfill.