Gypsy children cannot become scouts in Hungary

The Hungarian Scout Association apparently does not welcome Romani children, 168 óra writes in a lengthy piece about the recent controversy involving a group of Romani school children from Borsod county who could not take part in any summer camp organised by the association.

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A school for underprivileged children in Borsod

Dr Ámbédkar Iskola is a school in Sajókaza, Borsod county. The school was founded to help underprivileged Gypsy children graduate high school. Pupils of the school come from extremely low-income families, and graduating high school is their only chance to have a better life than their families. The school grabs every possibility to show their students the life outside the ghetto, as these kids usually do not even meet people from the other layers of society. This is the reason why

the school’s principle aims to organise as many activities for the children as possible where they can see what the world is like beyond extreme poverty.

This is also the reason why the school took part in many events organised by the Hungarian Scout Association with the ultimate goal of establishing their own scout movement. They took the children hiking, and they also took part in training sessions.

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Rejected by the Hungarian Scout Association