International Initiative for Development for Ethnic Art

Cooperation with mayors

Already in 2002, an international cooperation was established with mayors of Slovak villages, in which are situated Roma settlements Lenartov, Lomnička, Hermanovce, Rudňany, Rakúsy, Rankovce, Jarovnice, Bystrany, Šaca, Muránská Dlhá Luka, Kamenná Poruba, Ostrovany, Petrova, Sabinov and Cigeľka, Projects were started in these settlements, whose a goal was to decrease illiteracy and unemployment among Roma people.