Fundación Punjab

An emergency is a situation which affects in a tragic way the life and well being of an important group of people and which requires extraordinary actions to guarantee the survival, the care and the protection of affected people. The emergencies include the natural catastrophes such as earthquakes and hurricanes or catastrophes caused by humans such as war conflicts. Given that “emergency” is usual as a concept, it does not apply the same way to different realities; this happened a few years ago with the AIDS virus, which ended in being considered like an “emergency” and it will be very probably the same for drug consumption and its models of prevention.

Introduction

As a consequence of the resolution of the European Parliament (J.O 104/144 of 16.04.84) about the schooling of children whose parents do not have a permanent house, the European Community Commission has initiated a study about the schooling situation of the gypsies and people belonging to the travelling community in Europe.

The study developed between 1984 and 1985 in 10 State Members.

The synthetic report of the study was published by the Commission. This working document has, despite its transience, a wide documentation basis realized by expert professionals of this field. One of the most relevant aspects of this document is the whole series of practical recommendations which come down to the last chapter and which are designed for the educational institutions, as much for the European context as for the state and town context. The strength of these recommendations comes from a series of information that we consider important for the development of our research project.

By taking into account as the reference date the publication of the report in 1986, one has to underline the most relevant information: