Kids of Lunik IX
It is a series of photos of children and teenagers living at Lunik IX – a district in Košice, Slovakia, almost entirely inhabited by Roma people. Among few thousand inhabitants live more than 1,000 children.
They live in unworthy conditions, sometimes with a dozen or so family members, nestling in twenty square meters. Children living at Lunik IX live like in the ghetto, but often do not see it like that, playing with joy and smiling.
The Roma are by far the most long-term discriminated against minority in the EU. Eighty percent of Roma in the EU still live below the poverty line in their country. Every third Rom lives in a building without running water, and every tenth in a building without electricity. Every fourth Roma child and every third Roma child live in a household where they experienced hunger at least once in the previous month. [European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2017]
They live in unworthy conditions, sometimes with a dozen or so family members, nestling in twenty square meters. Children living at Lunik IX live like in the ghetto, but often do not see it like that, playing with joy and smiling.
The Roma are by far the most long-term discriminated against minority in the EU. Eighty percent of Roma in the EU still live below the poverty line in their country. Every third Rom lives in a building without running water, and every tenth in a building without electricity. Every fourth Roma child and every third Roma child live in a household where they experienced hunger at least once in the previous month. [European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2017]