Tucked away in a waiting area by Platform One at Prague's main train station is a sight that belies claims of generous help for all Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic.

Sleeping bags are strewn on the floor and plastic bags full of clothes pile high. Sweltering in the early summer heat, children let off steam by charging up and down the empty platform before collapsing disconsolately on wooden benches.

This is the limbo into which hundreds of Roma refugees have been thrown. While waiting for judgement from the Czech authorities on their right to a temporary visa, they cannot get accommodation from the state. They simply sleep on the floor at the station, and wait.

Volunteers working here say they've never seen refugees of other ethnicities in the same dire circumstances.

When EUobserver asks one of the guards whether journalists can gain access, he chuckles.

"You won't see anything here," he says. "It's closed off for photos, everything. TV crews come and film the black plastic wall here by the entrance, and that's it."

He confirmed that the tent city is only being used for Roma people.

It's been suggested that some of the Roma refugees arriving in Prague are part of the Hungarian diaspora from western Ukraine, and that they also have Hungarian citizenship.

Czech interior minister Vít Rakušan has described the arrival of Roma people from Hungary as "a big problem."

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Amir Destanov, a Roma child from the street who decided to fight the cruel fate that wanted his family to be below the poverty line, and he, his brothers, sister and mother to suffer domestic violence, won third place in the "Kangaroo" math competition .

He shared the joy with the Day Care Center for Street Children in Suto Orizari, which is currently supporting 61 children who managed to distract them from begging, enroll them in school and help them with further education and homework.

Extremely interested in mathematics, Amir achieved the upgrade to go to "Kangaroo" in the Center, solving tasks with teacher Philip. When he heard that there would be a competition, he wanted to participate as well, but he did not have 200 denars to pay.

"Others wanted to go, but because I am mathematically strong, I passed. The classmate told me, and I replied, "Okay, I'll talk to my family and tell you." "The payment for the 'Kangaroo' competition cost 200 denars, money I did not have," says Amir.

He immediately informed the teachers Irena Velkoska and Vasilka Jovanovska, who is a social worker, and Aleksandra Lozanovska, an educator, about his desire to compete in mathematics, in the category of eighth and ninth graders. They paid him a share from their own money.

At the match, Amir did not know how it went. He told the educators, the teachers from the Center that he was not sure what he had done, because he was pressing buttons, ie. was taken electronically. He wondered if he had done everything right, if he had coped or not with the click.

"But when he came with the diploma in his hand to win third place, we were so happy!", Says Irena Velkoska, coordinator of the Day Care Center for Street Children.