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Gipsies Are Still Here > 1/23
It was two centuries ago when the first gipsies came to Georgia. Today, after almost two hundred years, their community is socially excluded. Many legends have been told about gipsies - some are afraid of them, some are running from them... But the legal rights and the mess in their official documents remain the biggest problems. They can’t even get the medical treatment which is the reason why many gipsy women deliver their babies at home. Gipsies just can’t understand why they have to be involved in political life of Georgia. They think that the government just doesn’t care. And the viral stereotypes which are spread in the society make them even more vulnerable. This is the gap which seperates the gipsies from the opportunities they could have...
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