Life with the Roma – on a hard, dusty road

We are in Europe. The EU. One of the more progressive and prosperous societies in human history. Just 3 miles outside a quite nice, small city in central Romania. We are in a Roma community of about 400 people living in ramshackle dwellings on a dusty road leading up to the hills off the main…

Learning from the Gypsies – Part 1 of a series

I’ve had enough time for my thoughts to start to settle and begin to distill some of the many impressions gained from spending most of October immersed in the culture of the European Roma. Our Catalyst Team started off by pulling into Budapest just a couple hours before the beginning of the “Roma to the…