According to estimates there are between 20,000 and 40,000 Roma living in the third largest city of the Czech Republic, with around 10,000 of them in poor ghettos with a 90% unemployment rate. Last year the Ostrava city hall launched a unique project to improve the situation in these poor localities.
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