In Hungary, only 0.3 per cent of Roma hold post-secondary school diplomas
and only one in four complete primary school. They comprise an estimated 5-7 per cent of the loin national population but make up two-thirds of the prison population. Their jobless rate is over 60 percent, more than six times the Hungarian average. And their life expectancy -- a vital measure describing health, economic and social conditions -- trails the national average by as much as ten years.
Even today, only one in five Gypsy families could afford to send their children to
secondary schools.
Gilvánfa, a distant small village located by the Hungarian border with Croatia, 34km from Péc. The living condition there is poor, the rough “main road” of the village and the filed is the playground of the kids, there is no school, no shops around; few buses came to pick up some women from the village to a TV factory nearby to work…
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