Project Rom Bazaar Description
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The project establishes the first stable Rom Bazaar in Greece in St. John Rentis, Athens. It provides 56 shop owners spaces to sell goods and serves 2000 customers per hour. The 5000 square meter site has retail shops, cafe, offices, restrooms, a yard, and parking for 1500 cars. The bazaar aims to empower Roma people economically and demonstrate Roma can successfully work with others through this self-managed project established by non-governmental organizations with European funding support.
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Project Rom Bazaar Description
- 1. Project ROM BAZAAR Description Table of Contents Project Description * Introduction * Project * Project Location * City of Athens * St. John Rentis * List of Tables Table 3-1 Description of Project Components * List of Figures Figure 3-1 - Vicinity Map * Figure 3-2 - Location Map * Project ROM BAZAAR Description Introduction The Rom Bazaar it is not a project. Is an experiment, an experiment between Non Governmental Greek Organisations to show to the Greek government that the Gipsy and rom Persons in Greece they are not only to vote them at elections , and to not take care of them after but they are humans, they have knowledge for doing big projects also and they can live together with others and work with them , if the governments can help, just a little! So the project rom bazaar starts The idea OF ROM BAZAAR is old
- 2. For many decades ago roma persons merchandising goods at the greek roads They use a car and before a horse to take goods and trade to all places But times change And because of that starting big buildings , with many shops together build in every area, shop malls. And people goes there for more cheep things But also and the roma traders continue to gather at roads and make bazaars with 200 or 300 cars together Those bazaars comes to our culture We like to be all together and sell things Then the idea comes Can we make a Stable Rom Bazaar? To a Stable place? To every one go in and sell his goods? To have very little payment? To find all people good quality and cheep price? And we start First we need humans to share the idea We must gather those from around Greece Roma likes the plan and they also like to help Also non- roma from Greek gov likes it. It was a good project In our villages we speak about 5 different Rom bazaars to build in 5 different areas of Greece!
- 3. We make plans and we know that we must have a grate amount of money to do that. Then we start to collect the capital The third level non governmental organization P.U.O.G.R. collects from bazaars from all Greece and from roma people money for the project We collect in 3 years about 4.000.000 euro! Each one gives . other 5 euro other 5.000 euro Each one help All rom help and we had a capital to build the first And then EOMMEX comes We have a program, a European program were you can put rom bazaar in! Mr MPOLAS the management director of EOMMEX say to us! We can giving 55% of the project with EUROPEAN MONEY! Then how we can do that? No one can help in the start Then my president and me we said. We are till now alone and we come till here Now the government wand to help with 55% and we let them not to do? We must make alone the project! How? We are non governmental organizations We can work for helping our members to do the project At their position starts to work all the offices of 62 first level non governmental organizations to make the description of the program in all Greece and make all the papers that the program needs In Greece we have 98% persons that they do not go to any school, they do not know how to reed or write in Greek, so thing how difficult is to make
- 4. about 2500 different programs for different kind of business and sent them with all papers to EOMMEX on time We spoken for 5 malls We spoken for many different shops in all Greek area We spoken for 50.000.000 euro projects And we are on time! At the date that expires the program we have send to eommex 2546 programs! And then we wait We take 1258 aproovals! All papers good! They can give to us project money 23.000.000 euro! But We must build first the projects , with our own money! Then we must first pay the 46.000.000 euro and then take back the 23.000.000! Now? The only money that we have are the 4000000 that we collect! Ok We make only one, were? Athens? Were in Athens? In the area with all Malls! Were is that? St. john. Rentis There has the area of the most Malls in Athens
- 5. Into that area is the center of 13 different municipalities and covers more than 2.5 million people. Ok there! How? We must find the land, rent it and also we must know what we can put into and how and which! And then we start conversations with all the non governmental organizations And times pass And the dates pass also And we do not start, we cannot know how, and no one likes to start first Then again puogr takes the risk Ok here we can start, we found that place there, and we rent the place for 20000 euro the month For 15 years Now lets find wich stays and wich go out! Only familys with 4 kids and these that has the nmost needs stays. The other go! 56 families The most of the problem on them 4 and more kids Homeless No work Health problems Named them All kind of problems
- 6. And PUOGR STARTS OPENS SHOPS, Pays for problems of taxes, of problems for insurance, take and pay personal, start reconstruct the hole area of 5000 sq. metres And the project start to build at the start of april of 2009. And persons of PUOGR go out of Greece to find things for the shops, They go to turkie, to Italy, to india, to china and find things Then again PUOGR gives money , to buy that things for the shops , for transportations, for customs Pays attorney for work, pays lawyers for works, pays, pays, pays Then eommex needs papers also The office of PUOGR NOT STOP WORKING! 24 hours the day , day and night work, many persons to help, they see the project , they like to help.! And the ROM BAZAAR BUILDS. The first. People go to eommex take the cheques of the pay back money and they come to PUOGR , and they give the Cheques to Puogr! They do not wand the money! They wand the shops in ROM BAZAAR. And we give also and the goods We hire also people to sell the goods for some families that they do not know how to shell or how to use the cash mashine! Also we help each one and every one at Rom BAZAAR and 21 of November We open it. IT works till now! 5 months till now works! In middle of crises we invest in an idea! Not goes all very good We still have problems!
- 7. But it exist. Rom bazaar exists. And we are proud of that! It is the first project that NON GOVERMENTAL ORGANISATION AND many roma persons and non- roma persons together make in GREECE. And we are very proud! Now we come to speak to you about! And think this is our first project in Greece! And PUOGR is 3 years OLD Many non governmental organizations pass from all areas of Europe WERE are their projects for Rom, build by Rom? I thing this is the first. LET all try not be the last! Let try to pass that project to all countries to have work the rom persons Our work like non governmental organizations is to help our people. We know how to help, not with words and good letters! Only with work This is our work Bari buti Lachi buti! ROM BAZAAR Project
- 8. Project Location ST. John Rentis, Attiki The 5000 sq.m project site is located west of central Athens between thivon road and Athens Thessaloniki ave, south of Attiki odos ave, and north of Piraeus ave, as shown on Figures 3-1 and 3-2. The area is used for trade use and houses and the exact position of ROM BAZAAR is at exactly the center of that area. We have at our left the Zaharias Toys building in front the Thivon Ave and after that the Nikaias KRATIKO Hospital, at our Write ina bout 1 klm the Aldi And the Marinopoulos market , Behind us THE BUS TERMINAL STATION of Athens and at the same area the Village CINEMAS AND SHOPPING CENTER, The Star Center, The Carefour, the IKEA, the Germanos Building, The Allou fun Park, the Pasal buildings, and also 4 gas stations and 3parking areas for any car!Also in front of our door is the bus stop for busses to Piraeus, Eleysina, Aigaleo, Rentis,and also through that the contact to metro and to trolley! Figure 3- 1 - Vicinity Map Figure 3- 2 - Location Map
- 9. Description of Project Components . Table 3-1 lists the project components. Table 3- 1 Description of Project Components Size CLIENTS Use (sq. m.) CAPACITY PER DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA HOUR Shops area 2500 AT THIS PLACE 56 SHOP OWNERS WORKS THE SHOPS ARE DIAVERCE IN 4 2000 ZONES,EACH ZONE HAS A DIFERENT COLOUR THE ZONES ARE FOR DIFFERENT GOODS. FRONT AREA 500 100 THE FRONT AREA IS FOR USE OF THE CLIENTS OF CAF-RESTAURANT PIZZA BAR AT THE FRONT DOOR
- 10. WC 100 10 THE AREA HAS 1WC FOR PERSONALWITH SHOWER, 1WC FOR OFFISES OF PUOGR, 1 WC FOR AMEA, AND 4 FOR MEN AND 3 FOR WOMEN CLIENTS Central Office 400 -- ONE conference room, meeting rooms, and 4offices, AND RECEPTION, YARD AREA 1000 800 THIS AREA IS HALF COVERED AND HALF NOT COVERED THE USE IS TO MAKE OPEN FIESTA OR OPEN MARKET THE SUMMER. IT CAN COVER THE NEEDS OF ABOUT 80 PERSONS TO SHELL WITH 3 METRES EACH FOR PUTTING EACH GOODS Parking 20000 1500 WE HAVE THREE PARKING AREAS 1 AND 2 IN FRONT OF ROM BAZAAR AND THE 3 BEHIND ONE AND 2 CAN COVER TOGETHER ABOUT 700 CARS AND THE THIRD ALONE ABOUT 800 CARS Management A BOARD OF 9 DELEGATES OF THE SHOP OWNERS AND TWO DELEGATES OF PUOGR HAS THE MANAGEMENT OF ROM BAZAAR