During the pandemic and the fight against the coronavirus, the position of the Roma from Kosovo is further aggravated, and their economic situation is at an unenviable level, said the representative of the Roma community in Kosovo, Gazmen Salijevic.
"We are all aware of the pandemic, but we should also think of the weak group of citizens specifically for the Roma. Many Roma live on social income, collecting secondary raw materials or manual labor. "With the pandemic, families are not able to earn a living, to feed their children," said Salijevic.
He noted that those Roma who remained to live in Kosovo and fight for survival, equality and against prejudice.
"No institution, whether political, social or cultural, has dealt seriously with solving the problems facing the Roma in Kosovo," Salijevic said.
He reminds that the Roma are on the margins of society, but not of their own free will, but at the will of the system that continuously discriminates against them.
"Despite the good will for integration, for coexistence, neither the political nor the social system are ready to help us and are not sincere with joint efforts to overcome stereotypes and everything else where the majority population wants to label us," he said.
Salijevic said that the Roma from Kosovo lack programmatic investment in education, because without education a healthy nation with a future can not be expected.
