Lizzie Edmonds ~ Slumdogs Of Slovakia

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These heartbreaking pictures show the squalid conditions that thousands of Roma children are forced to call home in the city of Kosice, Slovakia.

The city, the largest in eastern Slovakia, received £51 million when it was named the European Capital of Culture 2013 alongside Marseille, France. The money is to be invested into the city’s infrastructure, creative industries and tourism.
However, in the suburb of Lunik IX around 8,000 Slovakian Roma, most of them children, live in squalor in one of the world’s worst slums.

 

See more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/Kosice

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