The Budapest-based Romedia Foundation has created romawoman.org, a new website where Roma women worldwide can share videos, films, photos, news, life stories and experiences.
 

Romedia initiated the “I’m a Roma Woman” campaign in 2009 with the release of a first campaign video featuring five young Roma women from Europe who spoke about their experiences. A year later, the campaign extended to the Western Balkans with a video produced in cooperation with CARE International North-West Balkans. The success of the campaign among Roma activists prompted Romedia to create the new campaign website as “a membership-based online empowerment tool by and for Roma women.”

“Our culture is still unknown to most,” said Katalin Barsony, Romedia's managing director and a Romani activist herself, “Rumors and prejudices about who we are abound and make up a wall which we are trying to break through in order to show, story by story, that we are individuals, mothers, daughters, wives. My grandmother believed that she could make it through and it is now for me to make sure everyone knows that others have made it through, too.”

“We Roma women are isolated from each other. We hardly ever speak to each other,” reads Romedia's statement about the new website, “If you want to learn from other Roma women. If you want to know what other Roma women are going through. If you want to be proud of all we have achieved so far. If you want to get to know other Roma women like you. If you want to do something to make your children’s fate better, then visit www.romawoman.org.”