Associazione 21 luglio is engaged in the promotion of the rights of Roma and Sinti communities in Italy and focuses mainly on the protection of children's rights and the fight against any form of discrimination and intolerance.

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Associazione 21 Luglio Brings a Mobile Play Hub to Community Meeting Spots in Rome

TOY for Inclusion Play Hubs give children a save, welcoming place to interact, play and spend quality time with other children and adults. As part of their work to fight educational poverty and c...

BLOG: Lockdown: Time to Wait or Moment of Opportunity?

“At this moment there are three possible scenarios for a non-profit organization:1) come out strengthened - but few will do it;2) find itself in crisis and risk closing;3) find itself in crisis and ha...

TOY for Inclusion Conversations: Meet the Play Hub Coordinators

As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers and activities continue to occur in online spaces, TOY for Inclusion is taking advantage of this movement online to showcase some of the most influential and crucial v...

New TOY for Inclusion Play Hub in Rome!

It’s like a coffer that opens and reveals its content made of books, toys and puppets. It will drive to the most peripheral areas of the Rome where children and their families are less reached by earl...

NEWS - Francesca and Dzemila talk ISSA Conference

We caught up with Francesca Colombo & Dzemila Salkanovic of Association 21 July, to share their reflections on the ISSA Conference.  Dzemila Salkanovic tells us: 'The ISSA Conference is alway...

In their own words: reflections on ISSA Conference 2016

Representatives of ISSA Member Association 21 July, Dzemila Salkanovic and Francesca Colombo share their reflections what it meant and how it felt to be involved in ISSA Conference 2016. Dzemila Salka...

NEWS - Association 21 July: ‘Little by Little, the Girl started making Friends.’

Blessed with the opportunity to speak face to face with so many people from our member organizations at the Annual Council meeting, we took the opportunity to sit down and ask how things are truly goi...

ISSA member Associazione 21 Luglio writes about how Italy is failing the lives of Roma people

We received a blog post written by ISSA member Associazione 21 Luglio about the tragic death of three Roma sisters in Rome, Italy. Associazione 21 Luglio works daily with Roma people in the Italian ca...

Resources

Tales on the phone

For young children a phone line has been activated: they can call the line every day from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 12.00 to listen to fairy tales in Italian and Romanes languages that have a Rom...