Osada, the Slovak name of Roma settlements, are slowly changing. Here the story of new hairdresser in a new house in the settlement in Medzev, Eastern Slovakia.
- Romské osady na Slovensku se mění. V Medzevu rostou nové domy a barbera Daniela čeká stáž v USA. In: iRozhlas. 18.05.2024. https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/romske-osady-na-slovensku-se-meni-v-medzevu-rostou-nove-domy-a-barbera-daniela_2405181128_kac
Housing, water, sewerage, but also education and work are among the biggest problems of the marginalized Roma community. However, improving these issues is often slowed by the problem of land ownership, which is very often unresolved in such settlements.
A TV crew visited a controversial Roma settlement in Koszary, near Limanowa. The case of these Roma has filled many articles in the Polish press.
During the broadcast of the report, Roma children said in front of the camera that they were called names, ridiculed, attacked and beaten – but the young boys did not present any specific situations. Their parents told that they had no other choice than to burn refuse to heat, something what neighbours hav been complaining a lot.
More than a year after a fire ravaged a Roma settlement in Trebišov, Slovakia, a more suitable housing has been provided by a NGO. Until then, many of the Roma had to live in tents, even through the winter.
The state is pretty much absent here.
Does one really have to report on this? A brawl among Roma in a settlement in Slovakia makes it to CNN.
Bad for all.
The story of a Roma settlement in Slovakia where people used to live in wooden huts with earthen floors. Now, ten years later, they live in brick houses, and are beter off, but still no one there has completed high school.
The kindergarten of a Roma settlement in Dobruška was set afire. Why and by whom is still unknown.
Bad.
An article in the Serbian press of the largest Roma settlement in North Macedonia, the Šutka. There, Romanes is an official language.
The new settlement in Opovo is one of the more organized of the Vojvodina region, having been built in 2019 by a European Union project with the aim of integrating the Roma population into the local community. It was visited by representatives of the National Council of the Roma National Minority and the province on the occasion of the “Children’s Games”.
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