Romani CRISS (full name: Romani Center for Social Intervention and Studies, or Centrul Romilor pentru Intervenție Socială și Studii in Romania) is a Romanian non-government organisation which seeks to protect the rights of the country's Romani minority and to prevent discrimination against the Roma, who officially make up 3.3% of the country's population as of 2011,^[1] with an unofficial 2002 estimate of between 1.5 and 2 million, representing at least 8-9% of the population.^[2] It also conducts a series of projects in order to improve the situation of the Roma in education and health care. Romani CRISS was founded on April 4, 1993, and its executive director 2005-2012 was Margareta Matache.^[3] Its current executive director is Marian Mandache.^[4]