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NGOs think there are up to 3 million Roma living in Romania (Photo: Studii Romani)

Roma: education is the only answer

A massive investment in education is the only way that the huge Roma minority in Romania can emerge from grinding poverty and marginalisation. If better educated, the Roma people could fill the gap created by the country's falling population and provide future generations of entrepreneurs, scientists and skilled workers.

Estimates of how many Roma are in Romania vary wildly. At the last census in 2001 well under a million Romanians declared themselves to be Roma (fears of the holocaust ...

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NGOs think there are up to 3 million Roma living in Romania (Photo: Studii Romani)

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