20th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
A little shepherd..

This is Rada and she is often “helping” her father, a shepherd, as she is keeping an eye on the sheep flock. This gipsy family is very poor, they barely make ends meet. Her father told me that, unfortunately, mostly of the gipsies in Bulgaria are living in misery and poverty. Forgotten by God? No, forgotten by the state and society. Their problems are never on the agenda. They may wait. And so, day after day, year after year.The gipsy ethnicity life there is difficult : poverty, unemployed parents, wooden and clay huts instead of normal homes, illiteracy, and to survive , most of the kids are forced from their parents to beg or steal. But this shepherd is working and pushing hard to feed his big family. He wished a good education and even a normal school for his children too but he can not afford it now. I really hope for a better future of them and entire gipsy ethnicity in Bulgaria!

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2022
Date Uploaded: 11.2022
Photo Location: Bulgaria
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Copyright: © Veronika K Ko