Gandhi School Project

 

The Gandhi Közalapitványi Gimnázium és Kollégium is a boarding school in Pécs for Roma students. Romas are a large ethnic group in Hungary, usually living on the fringes of society. The school, founded in 1994 by the Gandhi Foundation, is unique, as it is the very first ethnic highschool for Roma youth not only in Hungrary, but in all Europe.  

 

In 2012, a joint effort of the Rotary Club of Seattle, Seattle Pécs Sister City Association and the Rotary Club of Pécs funded the replacement of the 50-year-old windows and doors of the school cafeteria building. The SPSCA was awarded a grant of $1000 from the Sister Cities Association of Seattle to contribute to the project. 

 

The SPSCA is hoping to find ways to continue supporting this very worthwhile institution in the future.