The lives of many Roma in BiH even before the coronavirus pandemic were a struggle for survival. Coping with child poverty, discrimination, employment and education has been even more difficult in recent months due to the pandemic.

People are on the brink of extinction and left to the mercy of those in power. The most common question is how to feed the family. There is less and less food on the table every day, and there is no work. Humanitarian aid packages are welcome but are a solution in a matter of days or weeks. How next? Sabit Muratovic is one of the many Roma in Bosnia. He is 32 years old and the father of six children and lives with his wife with his parents. For many it is unthinkable to sleep in a room with more members, but for Sabit and his family it is a reality.

They do not have electricity at the moment because they do not have the money to pay the debt. For them, the past few months have been just a struggle for survival.

The Muratovi. Family has repeatedly applied for public calls for housing for the Roma population, but as Sabit says, he has always been rejected on the grounds that he did not meet the requirements.

"A dozen of us sleep in one room. There is another room in the house but I have no furniture for it. The children are growing up and looking for their own rooms, and I can not afford that. "I am so sick, it is very difficult," said Sabit.

Link: http://www.portal-udar.net/zivotne-price-svakodnevnica-roma-koji-su-zbog-korone-ostali-bez-posla/

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