THE RROMANI SOCIO-CULTURAL FOUNDATION “Ion Cioabă”
The mission of the Rromani Socio-Cultural Foundation “Ion Cioabă” is to promote the cultural identity of the Rroma people around the world.
Understanding the culture of one’s nation is the key to peace, harmony, and mutual understanding between all countries.
MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION:
- Empowering the Rroma and gaining recognition of their international ethnic identity.
- Preserving Rroma cultural traditions and sharing them globally, including online; reviving spiritual, cultural, and traditional Rroma values from obscurity.
- Identifying the cultural heritage specific to all Rroma communities and creating a comprehensive database through fieldwork and archival research to enrich and diversify the cultural, spiritual, and scientific heritage of citizens in multicultural societies.
- Publishing books, textbooks, pamphlets, calendars, and recordings in Rromani, translated into Romanian, German, and English for wider dissemination and availability to governmental and non-governmental institutions and foundations.
- Establishing a socio-cultural and professional center to train young Rroma generations and promote their talents.
- Creating an ethnographic museum to document Rroma history, language, and socio-ethnography.
- Launching a Rroma theater to promote cultural and spiritual values.
- Encouraging intercultural collaborations both within Romania and internationally.
- Founding an ethnic Rromani school to preserve traditional crafts, and organizing festivals, competitions, and artistic events to research and share the history of the Rroma people.
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