{"id":74292,"date":"2025-04-28T12:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=74292"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:45:37","slug":"we-are-eating-nettles-poverty-and-harsh-living-conditions-in-the-roma-neighborhood-in-gracanica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/we-are-eating-nettles-poverty-and-harsh-living-conditions-in-the-roma-neighborhood-in-gracanica\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are eating nettles&#8221;: Poverty and harsh living conditions in the Roma neighborhood in Gracanica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents of the Roma neighborhood in Gracanica are facing harsh living conditions, while the right to education for their children has become a daily challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KosovaPress team visited the neighborhood and asked several residents about their living conditions. They preferred to remain anonymous and declined to comment publicly for KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Off-camera, a woman, mother of four children, described the dramatic situation her family is in, saying that she is unable to send her children to school due to the severe conditions.<br>Another resident of the neighborhood said that the poor infrastructure is making it difficult for children to walk through the streets to reach their school.<br>Another resident, commenting on the lack of institutional response, stated that in this neighborhood, more than 50 households need help to send their children to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, another woman raised an even more fundamental problem \u2014 the lack of food. Speaking off-camera, she said that due to hunger, they are eating nettles, and that sending her children to school is simply out of the question for her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this harsh reality, the residents of the Roma neighborhood in Gracanica are urgently calling on institutions to improve living conditions and ensure that children&#8217;s fundamental right to education is upheld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/KosovaPress\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the Roma neighborhood in Gracanica are facing harsh living conditions, while the right to education for their children has become a daily challenge. The KosovaPress team visited the neighborhood and asked several residents about their living conditions. They preferred to remain anonymous and declined to comment publicly for KosovaPress. Off-camera, a woman, mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":74293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[2185,5979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74294,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74292\/revisions\/74294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}