"Romano" - Denmark's oldest gipsy association

"ROMANO" is Denmark's oldest Roma association. It was founded in 1942 as a subunit of the famous resistance group "Holger Danske" ("Holger the Dane") and it helped jews, gipsies and other refugees scape the nazies to Sweden. Later it saw that Finnish gipsy children were included in the contingent of Finnish children that came to Denmark and that Finnish gipsy war invalids could come to Denmark for recuperation although gipsies were officially by law forbidden entrance to the Kingdom of Denmark until 1952.

"Romano" has as its main goals:
- to show solidarity with and assist gipsies and travellers in Denmark, assisting in securing their human rights and rights of citizenship in both the social and cultural fields.
- to increase public knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the history and culture of the gipsies, to develop information and educational material that presents an alternative and broader understanding of the reality of gipsy life.
- to effect this by publications, media productions, courses, training, teaching, information, exhibition, theatre and concert activities.
- to initiate and support project and media activities furthering these goals.

ROMANO - Kongevejen 150 - DK3000 Helsingør - Denmark - +45-49 22 28 11 fax + 45-49 22 27 11