3 results for month: 12/2014


The scalpel does not care about ethnicity by Anda Elena Pintilie

She has been through many moments that could have broken her. She has cried because of them, has stood against them, of just turned her back on them. She managed to transform all of them into life experiences. “I’m Alina Calin, specialist registrar in general surgery and I am of Romani descend. Straight talking- this is how she introduces herself, without hiding her beautiful smile. You lose yourself in her green eyes and it is difficult to know how to continue the conversation. Her tune is so calm and natural that it disarms you. She is the third sister out of five siblings who has a degree. Her family comes from Podu Iloaiei, Iasi county and ...

The street isn’t home by Annamaria Kozma

At 16 years old, Mioriţa Enache lives for 3 months in a tent on Vulturilor Street from Bucharest. 3 months in which it snowed, it rained, and the sun was absent 1 month from the sky. „We have too many problems, really”, says Mioriţa while she arranges her hair once again uncontrollably. Her black hair reaches almost her buttocks corseted well in a pair of fashionable blue jeans and she is so brilliant, that she seems to leave behind traces of keratin. The girl of 16 advances slowly on the street, with clumsy and resilient steps, in the way you move sometimes through your house, when nobody sees you. She keeps her left fist grasped and she ...

Alexandra amongst children by Lucia Hacman

A roma young women become school mediator for helping the comunity. Alexandra Iulia Bizga is 24 and has been working as a mediator at Ion Neculce School in Iasi, since September 2014. In the first days of school, the number of students is quite low but as school progresses more children show up, some curious to discover the mysteries of the alphabet and numbers, while others to strengthen their knowledge from last years. At Ion Neculce School in Iasi also known as School No 21, in Dimitrie Cantemir neighbourhood, most students are Romani. Classmates during all primary school, the children share a bread roll, milk and a piece of fruit together ...