Six women came to live in Lomnička, where almost two thousand Roma children live, to help them – Denník N

This text is part of the project Diary N follows you, we are for two weeks in Poprad and in the Tatras.

As they walk through the village, people smile at them, loudly greet them and children hold their hands. After all, they entertain their children, help them in contact with the authorities, treat wounds, make psychologists and also look for bricks and discarded windows for them. They were not discouraged by rats and stray dogs.

Despite the rain, the children stand in front of the center gate before it opens. When that happens, they run. Some embrace Ľudka, others immediately sit in a disciplined manner. There are races in dressing a doll, throwing in a bucket and inventing words. The number of children is gradually increasing, several have only slippers, some leaky shoes, most of them modestly but cleanly dressed.

“We’ll be called lightning,” eight-year-old Adam shouts his team’s name without moving off the bench. Already here, notice that everything in the community and pastoral center has a system. Sister Jacoby’s words only confirm this. Every activity is planned, fun and help go hand in hand with the rules. With so many children and people whose lives almost no one else is interested in, it would not be otherwise.

Eight hundred children at school, they also learn in the afternoon

Sister Jacob came here at the invitation of the school principal and the then mayor fourteen years ago. The graduate nurse with a university degree in the field of social work previously worked at an infant institution.

“When the invitation letter arrived, the nurse superior said that