Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian women’s invisible lives in society’s ‘outskirts’
Bringing Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian women out of the margins.
|2019.12.10
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Calculations based on the Kosovo Pensions Savings Trust indicate that only 0.08% of public sector employees are from the Roman, Ashkali and Egyptian communities.
Less than 10% of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian girls who finish primary school continue their education.
Sakibe once met a deputy education minister to talk about Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian students studying in containers in the village of Plemetin, Obiliq. “He told me ‘Gypsies are not interested in education.'”
Although Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian children face discrimination in schools, they hesitate to speak openly because of the fear of consequences.
Donika Lamaxhema
Donika Lamaxhema completed her studies in political science at the University of Prishtina. She works at Klan Kosova as a journalist and news presenter and is the producer of the show “Nd’rrimi i Natës.” In 2016, she won second place in the Journalism Poverty Prize awarded by the United Nations Kosovo Team and the Association of Journalists of Kosovo. Donika is a K2.0 Human Rights Journalism Fellowship program fellow (2019 cycle).
This story was originally written in Albanian.