Ravenlink Women`s Group – Romania Insight presentation
27th of October 2009
Ravenlink Women`s Group is based in East Belfast and it is our hope to collaborate more closely in the future.
I facilitated this session and it was my first encounter with the group. We met in Albertbridge Band Hall one rainy evening and I thought that the weather would prevent the ladies from coming to our meeting. I was soon proved to be wrong; the ladies arrived one by one, introduced themselves and started chatting. It was a nice, cosy atmosphere, perfect for our friendly, informal talk on a country they know little about: Romania. A fairly large number of Romanian families have moved to NI since Romania joined the EU, so lots of the questions that evening evolved around their reasons for wanting to leave Romania and choose NI, on the Romanian Health and Social Security system, on the Romanian Rroma population etc.
Trying to answer to all these questions made me realise that I can only offer a personal perspective on Romania: my reality can be very different to that of another Romanian, nevertheless as accurate. With that in mind continued our talk, doing my best in keeping as objective as possible.
The conversation flowed, one answer led to another questions, but we soon ran out of time! We might meet again, so much to talk about!!
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