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Children working for 100 denars

Miners on the age 7-8 years, are working for 100 denars per hour, and are working for 11 hours in the vineyards in Tikves. The thirteen year old K. V. from Strumica instead of pencil and notebook, for almost a month is holding a knife in his hands cutting of grapes in the vineyards in Kavadarci. Keep reading…

The people in charge turn a blind eye in front of the children’s labor. The schools, social work centers, the Ministry for education and the Ombudsman’s office are letting them work because of the poverty of the pupils families. The empty stomach and the poverty are forcing these socially endangered families from Strumica and Stip with their children to work in the vineyards and the Keep reading…

My name is Ramce but I am called Dzamce. Why? Because I am more naked than dressed, I live in a house, in fact a shack made out of carton, live bricks and iron. I will tell you a secret, I hid a jar buried in the ground and I hide money init. I want to collect more money to by my sister an invalid cart. After I finish eight grades I do not know what to do. I want to be a wall painter to dress in white so that I can be white. Sometimes I think that people do like me because I am black. But what can I do my grandmother says that our God is black. I am Ramce in fact Dzamce, through my window I see my future.

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We often say for everything which is arguable, when it is dirty, complicated, something promised and not fulfilled, is Gypsy business. I try to understand that stereotype, where does it come from, and yet it is very often used. The Gypsies I know call themselves Roma. They call them selves Roma community and not drifters and huts, they call them selves the only municipality in Europe,although in short we call it Sutka. Movies, stories, they are sung by many … oh to have, like I don’t have, to by myself … stories with a lot of honesty, a lot of love, a lot of smiles, Keep reading…

Alvaro Hil Roblens the Human Rights commissioner in the Council of Europe recently in Strasburg presented a report on the Roma rights in Europe. The endangerment of this ethnical population was practically the life motive that went through in all the tones of the report. The main word was about the 10 million Roma in the member countries of the Council of Europe. This story in a kind of report presented by commissioner Roblens, is a story about the check up of the human conciseness in the first decade Keep reading…

Every tenth Roma child finishes eight grade. From about 8000 Roma pupils that enrolled in elementary school, not even 600 finished it. The largest dropping out of schools with the Roma is in the fifth grade, and their biggest problem is learning the Macedonian language. The Roma children do not know the Macedonian language when they start going to school and causes many problems for them. This is how the condition of the Roma looks like with the education, which should improve Keep reading…