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Subscribe to RSSA boy plays on a slide made out of discarded construction material at the Romanian gypsy settlement of "El Gallinero", on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Nov. 24. More than 400 Romanian gypsies live in precarious conditions, without running water or sewage services, in "El Gallinero", just 9 miles away from Madrid's centre. The inhabitants live in ramshackle huts made out of cardboard and zinc in an area prone to flooding. They have no running water or sewer services. Their children play amidst garbage, copper cables and rats.
Susana Vera
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There was just another settlement destroyed which had existed for fifty years. Instead of wandering from village to village as their ancestors had done for generations, now these people have been forced to live in one location or another.
Instead of selling their wares in various places, they must remain group together in one place or another because there is no where else they are allowed. With modernization, a way of life known before has ceased.We don't realize some cultures which are impacted and that get lost between the cracks. As we have developed roads, towns have changed and technologically we have moved forward into the 21st century. Because such cultures are mobile ones and laws get passed restricting them.