World Vision’s work partner wins Best Actor Award at Berlinale

Nazif Mujic, president of Roma Association Poljice and World Vision’s partner in the project “Back to School: Second Chance for Roma Children” won Silver Bear award for Best Actor at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

Nazif acted himself in the movie “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker” by Danis Tanovic who also received Silver Bear Award for the movie. The movie re-creates several days in which Mujic, who tried to make ends meet at the time by collecting scrap metal, fought to get emergency treatment for his wife. Trailer of the movie can be found here:

 http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20138127

World Vision extends it greetings to Mr. Nazif Mujic!

Two-year project “Back to School: Second Chance for Roma Children” is conducted at the Poljice Primary school in Ozren Area Development Programme (ADP) in northeast Bosnia, where World Vision is empowering Roma children to integrate into school and wider community life. 

In school, World Vision organises weekly educational and creative workshops for Roma children in order to bring these children back into the fold of schooling.

The Roma community in Poljice, where Nazif lives, is remote and isolated from the wider community. People here live in small improvised houses without running water and with shared community water taps outside their homes.  In this community, children are often the main breadwinners in their families and are exposed to three of four vulnerability factors as per World Vision’s definition: abusive or exploitative relationships, extreme deprivation and serious discrimination. Out of 53 children in this village, only 15 are attending preschool or primary and high school. On a national level, only one third of Roma children are enrolled in primary school.