Combating poverty in Roma settlement
Genoveva Lingurar, who is pregnant, holds her son Alexandru in the makeshift and temporary home she shares with her husband and seven children in the abjectly poor Roma settlement of Ponorata, in Ponorata, Romania, Sept. 10, 2013.
Between 400 and 500 Roma live in squalor at Ponorata, few have access to electricity and 95 percent are illiterate and unemployed.
A Romanian NGO called OvidiuRo is attempting to get young Roma children to regularly attend pre-school through a coupon incentive system for food at Ponorata and 23 other Roma communities across Romania.
Many Roma from Ponorata have spent time in France to earn money, mostly through begging and scrap metal collection.
Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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