#domari

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY!!!!

fuck racism, shoutout to romani people

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Happy international Romani Day! This year with the ongoing genocide against Palestinians i would like to draw attention to the Dom people in Palestine. The Dom and Roma people are not the same as the groups left India at different times and using different routes but they share similar origins and face similar struggles and oppression. There are estimated 2.2 million Dom people in the Middle East and North Africa. The Palestinian Dom people live in West Bank, Gaza and occupied Jerusalem. The biggest Dom community is in Gaza — around 12,000-15,000 people were living there when the war started, but nobody knows how many of them are still alive.

The Domari Society is a non-profit organization based in Jerusalem aiming to improve the conditions of the Dom people, founded by Amoun Sleem who's interviewed in the recent article linked above. The Domari Society is unique for being founded and organized by the Dom community itself and has done incredible work such as providing education for children and women and preserving the endangered Domari language. The organization relies on donations to fund its activities and i recommend donating to them if you want to support the Palestinian Dom people in this particularly difficult time. Just raising awareness about the Dom and their situation is important too even if you can't donate

Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem

WELCOME TO THE GYPSIES SOCIETY IN JERUSALEM

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How to Donate to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem

As many of you may know, the Domari community in Palestine is suffering alongside native Palestinians in the genocidal campaign headed by Israel.

Though we do not know much of the Domari's struggles in detail, I can only imagine it is the same extent as the Palestinians' struggles.

The Domari Society was founded by director Amoun Sleem in 2000 and since then she and her staff have done incredible things for the Domari, including providing resources and education to women and children.

On the Domari Society website, there is information on how to send donations via bank transfer, but considering that their main avenue may not be the most accessible to share and donate, I am making this post providing a step-by-step guide on how to donate to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem.

This method works only if you have a PayPal and/or Xoom account (Xoom is owned by PayPal so if you only have PP, you can still donate.)

Step-by-Step:

Click this [link] here. It will take you to Xoom's page for sending money to Israel (Jerusalem is occupied by Israel, so it must be through them). Make sure you are signed in to either Xoom or PayPal.

Enter a minimum amount of 35.66 shekels (minimum 10.01 USD) to send. Click (Send Now) to progress to the next page.

3. Confirm information on screen and click (Next).

4. Select (Bank Deposit) and click (Next).

5. When selecting a bank, click (Other) and it will bring you to a page where you must enter the IBAN number of the bank you want to send money to. The IBAN for the Domari Society's bank is IL040176380000002503877 (copy and paste this exactly). Confirm that the bank is Mercantile Discount Bank Ltd and click (Next).

6. Enter in contact information. It is as follows: First Name: Domari Last Name: Society Address 1: Shua'fat, Derech Shua'fat 10 City: Jerusalem Phone Number: [phone] Email: [email protected]

7. Enter any information required and choose your payment option. On the last page, confirm the information listed and if everything is correct, click (Send).

Bank transfer may take a few days, but congratulations! You just donated to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem. Know that your contribution will go towards the betterment of the Domari in Palestine.

Also, most information is found on the Domari Society's website, so if you wish to confirm that the donation is legitimate you can check the bank details here: [link]

Please share this whether you donate or not, it could mean life or death for Dom under occupation. May we all see a day where our people are safe. Te aven baxtalo 💙❤️💚

[mistersaturn123]

-IF I- UPDATE XVIII-716-44

New page of IF I is up, and it appears they may have won!

But how exactly will they be getting to their destination, closer to the all consuming mouth of Nimis Ardenter?

Click the link and find out!

(also apologies for the erratic update schedule lately lol)

[mister-saturn-draws-things]

-IF I- UPDATE XVIII-694-22

New page of IF I is here, a couple days late due to life things but it's here!

IF takes a peek into the Congregation to see how it's going and well...you'll have to click the link to find out!

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kill yourself <3

Donate to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem.

Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem, a non-profit organization aimed at combating the major issues facing the Dom (Gypsy) community as severe discrimination, cultural marginalization and poverty, was founded in October 1999 by the society’s director Amoun Sleem in order to raise pride and cultural awareness within the Dom community. (x)

Economic Empowerment

Within the Dom community, women have the lowest status due to a traditional, strong patriarchal socio-cultural lifestyle and a long tradition of street beggary by women and children. 

Empowering women in the Domari community

 Jerusalem. 

The dependent and inferior status of women is maintained not only through stereotypes associated with their traditional roles as mothers and homemakers but also through costumes of inheritance, patrilocal households (women moving into the household of their husband's family), and men’s complete authority in decision-making within the family. Thus, most women in the community are denied any education after the initial years of primary school, are made to marry at a very early age (around 15) to a man their father chooses for them and start having babies early on.

The main goal is:

-          Provide Dom women professional skills and enable them to establish small businesses (even in their homes) without the need for large initial investments.

The sub-objections are:

-          Awareness of women's rights and of their right to decide about their own life and the wellbeing and future of their children, particularly girls, despite the challenges facing women in a traditional society.

enable Dom women to establish small businesses (even in their homes) without the need for large initial investments

-          Greater self-respect and awareness of self-value bringing about self-confidence and assertiveness.

-          Influence decision-making processes within their immediate and extended families.

-          Serve as role-models for other women in the community, who will turn to the Domari Center for feminist-based empowerment workshops.

-          Gain stature within the community so as to have a larger impact on the community as informal leaders.Domari Center has offered several vocational courses in hairdressing and catering in the past, many women in the small community of the Jerusalem Dom have heard about these courses and have expressed interest in them. In addition, Domari director, a community member who is personally acquainted with the several hundred families in the community, has spread the news about upcoming courses orally (as most women are illiterate). Thus, we currently have a waiting list of 24 women who want to participate in one of the two 2019 vocational courses.

Giving Domari women the tools to work

All women who expressed interest in a vocational course are being notified now of the upcoming course, its planned dates and its requirements, upon agreeing to comply with the requirements will have priority in securing their participation.

If Domari director is eventually left with several vacancies in the planned courses, she will again orally advertise them and personally turn to women she knows, based on personal acquaintance, that are in need for such a course and who might be interested but may not have the courage to ask to participate. Considering the unique state of women in the community, such a recruitment method might be necessary. (x)

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Roshanah’s potions room

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A Year in Language, Day 268: Domari Domari is an endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken by a couple hundred thousand people of the Dom ethnic group. The Dom are a nomadic people who live primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. They are relatives of the Romani people of Europe, "Rom" and "Dom" share a common etymology. The two languages share a number of distinct features, though it is unknown if this is a case of both groups leaving South Asia together, later intermingling as related itinerant groups, or simply an effect of being a western Indo-Aryan language under the influence of Semitic languages. Like Romani, Dom has no one standard form. The most prominent Dom community is found in Palestine and Israel, though they are often referred to as "Syrian gypsies", neither of which are accurate. Domari has picked up a number of features from Arabic, notably pharyngealized consonants, like Arabic's emphatic consonants, and uvular consonants like /q/. Since the 1940's Dom people have been settling and integrating into their local communities, which has resulted in young Dom's not acquiring Domari and instead acquiring the local language, normally Arabic. Most of the Domari speaking population is now old.