In Moldava Nad Bodvou, a small gipsy village in Slovakia, near the border of Ucraina, people live in muddy terrain and precarious conditions. There are 500,000 Roma people living in Slovakia and 75% of them live in extreme poverty. In this field the NGO ETP Slovenko is experiencing a new method of self-building houses in order to give a sense of responsibility to gipsy population so that they take care of their own houses. During Socialism gipsy people became sedentary. The regime of the “equal ones” promised a society without differences on the condition that they would renounce nomadism and their particular way of living. So they began to work in the factories and live in the high Soviet building provided by the government, losing the trade of a millenarian tradition. Nowadays they are a lost population, with a lost culture.
