I am Diana from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Starting with where I am today and going back to my early years, I will take you through my life journey that made me the person I am today. I will share the highlights of my life – I will go through the events that made me strong and introduce you to the people who supported me through the many challenges I faced along my life’s journey. I am proud to be of Roma origin and to be who I am now.<\/p>\n
I am 29 years old and I am the only Roma girl out of 2,500 people in my area who have a degree. I work for Roma education in the local department of education, where I am surrounded by young Roma motivated to learn. I also work as a volunteer in the Roma community, where I share the importance of preschool programs with parents.<\/p>\n
I was accepted to the University of Ecology majoring in “Environmental Conservation and Science”. I was the only Roma girl at the university and I was very proud to be there. For the first time, I directly experienced discrimination from my peers. I didn’t let them affect me. I wanted to become a positive example for other Roma girls and boys. After graduation, I continued with a master’s degree. I also volunteered in my community, supporting the education of Roma children.<\/p>\n
When it was time to choose which high school to enroll in, I followed my father’s advice and enrolled in the Environmental Technical School. After three months, my father, who is a chimney sweep, asked me if I wanted to enter the high school for chimney sweeps and attend two high school courses at the same time. I gladly accepted the double job!<\/p>\n
I successfully attended both training forms and obtained two diplomas that make me an environmental engineer and a qualified chimney sweep.<\/p>\n
During the early years of my primary school education, I quickly learned what it felt like to be seen through the eyes of prejudice. Meanwhile, I helped my father with chimney sweeps.<\/p>\n
During my early years, I did not attend\u00a0preschool. I loved playing with the brushes and tools my father used to clean chimneys.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynbg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}