The press-service of the NGO “Zakarpattya Community” reported that defenders of the Donetsk airport in the video appealed to ATO combatants with a call to undergo a medical examination and health improvement they are entitled to. Human rights activists believe that this video will attract the attention of the military personnel across Ukraine to their own health.
On December 30, 2016 three new self-government bodies of Roma communities were created in the Roma settlements in the villages of Velyki Luchki, Pavshino and Chomonyn.
Almost simultaneously four Roma residents of Chop, Uzhgorod district asked the Law Community Center that acts on the basis of the Transcarpathian Association of Hungarian Roma to help with employment.
Human Rights Foundation "Rozvytok" undertakes a difficult, but necessary deed – the development of active citizenship, which is aimed at understanding one’s responsibility for own social needs in the community.
CF "Heart with love" is a place where Roma families can go for legal, psychological and pedagogical assistance. It was created in the Transcarpathian village of Poroshkovo*. The aim of the initiators is not only to encourage families to send their children to school, but also to help children adapt to it, not to miss lessons and get a quality secondary education.
LCC in Perechyn district of Zakarpattya started working in July of this year. During this time the local Romani people not only learned about the possibility of receiving free legal aid, but experienced its real results.
On May 12 Perechyn city council may decided on approving the city target program to provide free legal aid to residents of Perechyn within 2016-2018. Thus Perechyn became the first city in Zakarpattya out of 10 planned ones in the framework of the project "Creation of an integrated system of providing free legal aid in Zakarpattya", in which the city government created the mechanism of realization of constitutional rights of citizens to receive free legal aid.
On April 4, 2016 the project "Provision of quality education for Roma children in preschool education and primary school" was launched in 4 regions of Ukraine. It will last 2 years and contain new features that should contribute to the education of Roma, at the same time making it the desirable and conscious need for children and their parents.
Perhaps, the Christmas story that happened in one of Roma settlements of Zakarpattya is far from being legal. But we couldn't ignore it. After all it deals with customs of Roma community. Besides, local Law Community center is a place for local Roma where they can count not only on legal, but also on full support of the fellow countrymen.
Little Marychka was fated to live only 2 years and 9 months. She was one of seven children of the Roma Geyza G., the resident of the village of Kholmok in Uzhgorod region. On October 26, 2015 the girl died in the emergency department of Uzhgorod children's hospital. Her death preceded tragic and unclear circumstances that are being examined by prosecutor's office now.
