mail online: Slumdogs of Slovakia: This city was given £51million when it was named European capital of culture… so why are Roma children still living in such horrifying squalor?

Kosice, Slovakia, won £50million to improve country’s infrastructure when it was named 2013 Capital of Culture Heartbreaking pictures show the suburb of Lunik IX where around 8,000 Slovakian Roma live, many of them children Destitute images show children covered in dirt playing in rubbish and the filthy apartments they live in Many live without gas, water or electricity in the area – where almost 100 per cent of its residents are unemployed [more…]