{"id":54305,"date":"2022-11-12T18:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=54305"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:12:03","slug":"misinformation-affected-vaccination-among-minority-communities-in-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/misinformation-affected-vaccination-among-minority-communities-in-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation affected vaccination among minority communities in Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>A large number of citizens of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian\ncommunities have not been immunized against COVID-19, due to misinformation\nabout the vaccine. This was said in today&#8217;s training, where about 20 school\nteachers in Prizren were trained on media education.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Misinformation, disinformation and\nmalicious information were the topic of today&#8217;s training in the framework of\nthe project &#8220;Media education for teachers of students from the Roma, Ashkali\nand Egyptian communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 17 years now, Linda Bi\u00e7aku, who is a teacher in the fifth grade of\nthe &#8220;Mati Logoreci&#8221; primary school, teaches many children from the\nRoma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teacher from Prizren says that besides other challenges, these\nstudents are being attacked with a lot of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Misinformation affected vaccination among minority communities in Kosovo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/re0QJXQ5nMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Since 2006, half of students in my class are from the Roma,\nAshkali, Egyptian communities. I am very satisfied. I have also had challenges,\nbut with this training that we are having today, I believe that students will\nunderstand better about the media, also about news and disinformation&#8230; It is\nimportant for me because I believe that with this, the students will have a\ngood understanding of the media. Since everyone has phones in their homes and I\nbelieve that it will have an effect&#8221;, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urma Menekshe is a Romani language teacher in four schools in Prizren. She\nbelongs to the Roma community and says that it is important to provide accurate\nand verified information to students and parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The importance is very great to be involved in this type of\ntraining because we are in a time when we are receiving incorrect information,\ndue to propaganda on social networks&#8230; We as teachers, but also the students\nwho are connected to social networks, as well as to televisions and radios, who\nare being misinformed and do not have the right information on a certain\ntopic&#8230; We should also be more aware of this type of training and to focus\nmore on distributing correct information to the students and parents\u201d Menekshe\nemphasizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tendency to spread fake news has existed historically in the human\nera, says history teacher, Albilon Gallapeni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;History also deals with communities, but in the contemporary\ntimes we live in today, this topic is very spread out, especially in fake news.\nTherefore, it would have been good if there were future activities in this area\nthat would protect communities from these news or misinformation due to\ntechnological development&#8221;, says the history teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of the non-governmental organization YCLC (Young Community\nLeaders Center), Gazmend Qyqalla, states that many members of the Roma, Ashkali\nand Egyptian communities have not been vaccinated because of fake information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Seeing that &#8216;fake news&#8217; has spread a lot at this time even in\ncommunities, these\ncontribute immensely so that communities are informed about &#8216;fake news&#8217;\nand about media education, which is important because media is a means that is\nbeing used immensely by children and adults&#8230; During the pandemic we have seen\nthat there was a lot of &#8216;fake news&#8217; about the vaccine and about the pandemic. Thus,\nsome communities have not been vaccinated because of these &#8216;fake news&#8217;, and\nhave damaged their health&#8221;, he says for KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the financial support of the American Embassy in Prishtina, KosovaPress\nNews Agency together with the non-governmental organization &#8220;Young\nCommunity Leaders Center&#8221; (YCLC), within the project &#8220;Media education for teachers,\nstudents and young people of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities&#8221;,\nis organizing these trainings within the seven-month project, which aims to\nraise the awareness of the communities against disinformation, as well as to\nstrengthen the role of civil society activists of the Roma, Ashkali and\nEgyptian communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The activities of the project &#8220;Media education for teachers, students and young\npeople of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities\u201d are divided into\ntwo phases. The first phase focuses on primary school teachers from grades six\nto nine and the second phase of project activities focuses on professors and\nsecondary school students from grades ten to twelve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s training is the third in a row after the one in Fushe Kosova and Mitrovica, which will continue to be held in the city of Gjakova. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The project &#8220;Media education for teachers, students, and civil society activists of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities\u201d is supported by the United States Embassy in Prishtina.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/supported-by-US-EMBASSY-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/supported-by-US-EMBASSY-2-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/supported-by-US-EMBASSY-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/supported-by-US-EMBASSY-2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/supported-by-US-EMBASSY-2-1-555x370.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of citizens of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities have not been immunized against COVID-19, due to misinformation about the vaccine. This was said in today&#8217;s training, where about 20 school teachers in Prizren were trained on media education. 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