Poverty Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/de/tag/poverty/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:41:03 +0000 de hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Poverty Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/de/tag/poverty/ 32 32 Slovakia, Roma, and Poor Health https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-roma-and-poor-health/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-roma-and-poor-health Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:06:26 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25829 Anthropologist Andrej Belák from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) has published a scientific study in one of the most […]

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]]> Anthropologist Andrej Belák from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) has published a scientific study in one of the most prestigious social science journals in the world. It is focused on the causes of the poor health status of excluded Roma in Slovakia.

The published work is mainly based on a series of in-depth field research carried out between 2004 and 2015. “These mapped in detail the daily practice of the excluded Roma themselves and then various professionals of the health system who worked with the excluded Roma on a daily basis,” the SAV spokeswoman explained. According to her, the work brings to the fore and vividly summarizes deeper connections that have been little known in the international context until now.

Well, you do not really need a PhD to understand that exclusion and poverty are not good for one’s health…

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]]> Bulgaria, Roma, Beggars, and Switzerland https://rroma.org/de/bulgaria-roma-beggars-and-switzerland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bulgaria-roma-beggars-and-switzerland Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:17 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24334 Due to the presence of s few Roma beggars from Bulgaria in Bern, members of the police in charge of […]

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]]> Due to the presence of s few Roma beggars from Bulgaria in Bern, members of the police in charge of foreigners went to Burgas, Bulgaria, together with journalists from the Tages-Anzeiger.

They do report on the poverty, precarity, and dreadful living conditions, but also speak (rather lest someone speak) about Roma chiefs, who, when owed money that is not repaid, “forces” people to work, “for example as a beggar” in Switzerland. They also say that begging is an important source of income.

Not when the average income of a beggar is less than 20 francs. There are other means that are way more lucrative.

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]]> Slovakia and Poverty https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-and-poverty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-and-poverty Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:20:53 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24304 An article on the improvements in terms of work and poverty in the town of Rimavská Sobota, in South Central […]

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]]> An article on the improvements in terms of work and poverty in the town of Rimavská Sobota, in South Central Slovakia. There, the unemployment has been the highest in Slovakia for a long time, but it has fallen sharply over the last 10 years. In addition, a large investment is planned for the district, the German company Winkelmann will build a plant there, which will create 450 jobs.

At the exit meeting on Wednesday, the government distributed approximately two million euros to various projects in the districts of Rimavská Sobota and Poltár.

What benefit will come to Roma still needs to be seen.

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]]> Slovakia, Poverty and Hunger https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-poverty-and-hunger/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-poverty-and-hunger Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:11:02 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=19294 A blog article in Slovakia that reflects many stereotypes. Young Roma groomed for begging for food. They are dirty, badly […]

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]]> A blog article in Slovakia that reflects many stereotypes. Young Roma groomed for begging for food. They are dirty, badly dressed. And among them, one exemplary young Rom who doesn’t want to turn out like his parents.

What the blog is mentions is that the shop in the village is 30 to 50% more expensive than the supermarket. The blogger misses the fact that these Roma cannot go to the supermarket, as they have no car…

In brief, a very bad article.

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]]> EU Report and the Czech Republic https://rroma.org/de/eu-report-and-the-czech-republic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eu-report-and-the-czech-republic Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:24:52 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=18428 According to the EU Fundamental Right Agency (FRA) Report on Roma, Roma in the Czech Republic, poverty threatens 77 % […]

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]]> According to the EU Fundamental Right Agency (FRA) Report on Roma, Roma in the Czech Republic, poverty threatens 77 % of Romani people, a clear deterioration of the situation as compared to 2016, when poverty threatened 58 % of Roma.

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]]> Europe and Roma https://rroma.org/de/europe-and-roma-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=europe-and-roma-3 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:51:01 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=18407 European countries with large Roma populations are making little progress towards equality for this minority. This is the result of […]

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]]> European countries with large Roma populations are making little progress towards equality for this minority. This is the result of a study published by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union in Vienna today.

In ten eastern and southern countries surveyed, 80 percent of Roma are at risk of poverty, the same number as in a 2016 survey. In the total EU population, 17 percent are currently at risk of poverty.

Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe with an estimated population of ten to twelve million. For its study last year, the FRA surveyed almost 8,500 of them and collected data on around 20,000 people in Greece, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The EU agency uses Roma as a collective term that also includes the Sinti group.

As usual, percentages about Roma are always suspect, as the true number of Roma is not known.

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]]> Water in Ukraine https://rroma.org/de/water-in-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=water-in-ukraine Wed, 17 Aug 2016 07:20:07 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=6419 Access to water in Ukraine’s Rroma settlement is often blighted by corruption, bad infrastructure, and a general lack of will. […]

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]]> Access to water in Ukraine’s Rroma settlement is often blighted by corruption, bad infrastructure, and a general lack of will.

Bad.

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]]> World Bank: Rroma in Romania 10 Times more Likely to be Poor https://rroma.org/de/world-bank-rroma-romania-10-times-likely-poor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-bank-rroma-romania-10-times-likely-poor Tue, 14 Jun 2016 06:21:50 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=5836 According to the world bank, Rroma in Romania are 10 times more likely to be poor than the rest of […]

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]]> According to the world bank, Rroma in Romania are 10 times more likely to be poor than the rest of the population. One always wonder how one arrives at these numbers, as one doesn’t really know how many Rroma there are in Romania (officially not that many), but clearly, those that are visible are discriminated, and as a result are poorer.

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]]> Teenage Pregnancy in Romania https://rroma.org/de/teenage-pregnancy-romania/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teenage-pregnancy-romania Thu, 09 Jun 2016 06:20:08 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=5605 A reportage on teenage pregnancies in Romania, and its inevitable conclusion that it affects many Rroma. While it is true […]

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]]> A reportage on teenage pregnancies in Romania, and its inevitable conclusion that it affects many Rroma. While it is true that many young Rroma have children early (very early), ethnicity may not be the root cause.

No sexual education, no contraception are available in the countryside, and in addition, several of the free churches that are active in those regions are adamantly against both, resulting in a new phenomenon of large families among traditionally small Rroma ones.

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]]> Slovakia: Rroma Organisations Concerned https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-rroma-organisations-concerned/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-rroma-organisations-concerned Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:22:02 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=4961 Several Rroma Organisations expressed concerns following a series of children death in Rroma ghettoes in that country. They are asking […]

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]]> Several Rroma Organisations expressed concerns following a series of children death in Rroma ghettoes in that country. They are asking the government to take action and to improve the overall conditions.

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