{"id":54655,"date":"2022-11-19T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=54655"},"modified":"2022-11-21T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:58:28","slug":"girls-from-the-roma-ashkali-and-egyptian-communities-drop-out-of-school-because-of-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/girls-from-the-roma-ashkali-and-egyptian-communities-drop-out-of-school-because-of-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities drop out of school because of misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Girls from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities are\nbeing forced to drop out of school because of misinformation of their families.\nThey are not even able to complete compulsory education, as their parents think\nthey should get married.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This was said in today&#8217;s training, where about 20 school\nteachers in Gjakova were trained on media education. In addition, it was\nemphasized that the girls of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities are\nalso falling prey to fraudsters on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the first phase of teacher trainings was completed,\nwhich during last weeks they were organized in Fushe Kosova, Mitrovica and\nPrizren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sevdije Haxhibeqiri teaches at the largest school in\nGjakova. Among the two thousand students, in the &#8220;Zekirja Rexha&#8221;\nlower secondary school, as she says, there are large numbers of students of the\nRoma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said for KosovaPress that there are a large number of girls who are not able to continue their education.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><br>\n<br>\n<!--StartFragment--><\/p>\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=\"Girls from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities drop out of school because of misinformation\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6MjHOJDv3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Taking into account that these communities have to do\nwith their families who do not have a lot of information, especially about\ntheir schooling and education, for this reason we also have big problems. I\nalso am part of the field where we have school dropouts, especially girls who\ndrop out of school. There are a large number of girls who drop out of\nschool&#8230;Usually girls drop out of school because of the misinformation of\ntheir families, who are still traditional, who think that girls should dropout\nif they are taller because she has to get married and they stop her to go to school&#8221;, she\nemphasizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Saturday, many teachers in Gjakova participated in\nthe training on the topic &#8220;Misinformation, disinformation and malicious\ninformation&#8221;, in the framework of the project &#8220;Media education for\nteachers of students from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haxhibeqiri says that these trainings help teachers to raise\nstudents&#8217; awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kreshnik Gjoklaj, who has been an ICT teacher for three\nyears, at the &#8220;Selman Riza&#8221; school, shows that among the 600 students\nthat the school has, there are also a large number of Roma, Ashkali and\nEgyptian communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Students use technology a lot; it is the digital age in\nwhich they are influenced by technology. Often times misuse or misinformation\nfrom these technologies, or the Internet, negatively affects students. For\nexample, online games for\nsome of the students, because the information that they should have is\nnot accurate or\nsufficient for them. The students of the communities lack more information,\nbecause it is not only the school that should inform the students about these\nthings that technology or the internet in general can bring,&#8221; he\nemphasizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in cases where students visit websites to get\ninformation, Gjoklaj emphasizes that they are being misinformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The information they receive from social media affects\nthe general information they receive or research on the Internet. Anyone can\nshare that information, but the source from which they receive it, may be\nincorrect&#8230; Communication, often through apps, with strangers, is the point\nthat needs to be addressed the most. Because we always know who is in front of\nthe computer, but who is behind the computer we never know because they may\nhave profiles with someone\u2019s first and last name that they don&#8217;t know&#8221;, he\ndeclared for KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are not the only cases where students suffer from misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teacher of the subject &#8220;Biology&#8221; and\n&#8220;Chemistry&#8221; at the &#8220;Zekirja Rexha&#8221; school, Diana Gaxha,\nsays that many students have not been vaccinated with the anti-Covid dose, as a\nresult of misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our school has a large number of minorities and it is\nimportant to break the stereotypes of these students and to receive media\neducation, because we are noticing that some of these students who belong to\nthese communities, misinformation brings them into situations that are not good,\nfor example, leaving school or different situations they had, or the issue of\nvaccination among those who said it affects their reproduction so that they did\nnot respond to the call for vaccination,&#8221; she concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the financial support from the American Embassy in Prishtina,\nthe &#8220;KosovaPress&#8221; News Agency, together with the non-governmental\norganization &#8220;Young Community Leaders Center\/YCLC&#8221;, is organizing\nthese trainings within the seven-month project, which aims to raise the\nawareness of communities against disinformation, as well as strengthening the\nrole of civil society activists from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian\ncommunities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project includes two phases. In the first phase, there\nare primary school teachers from the sixth to the ninth grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas, the second phase will start from December, which includes professors and secondary school students from grades 10 to 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The project &#8220;Media education against disinformation for teachers, students and civil society activists from 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=\"975\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image.png 975w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-768x435.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities are being forced to drop out of school because of misinformation of their families. They are not even able to complete compulsory education, as their parents think they should get married. 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