Church service at the pastoral centre of the Salesians of Don Bosco mission in the Lunik IX housing estate, home to the largest Roma community in Slovakia, with 6542 residents registered in 2015.

Pepa (56) grew up in the former Czechoslovakia but is a long time resident in the Lunik IX housing complex where, for four years from 1998, he was the mayor. Hrebenova 34-36, the building he is in, is...

Milena, mother of four daughters and a son, stokes a wood burning stove in the flat in the Lunik IX housing complex given the family when the block they lived in was demolished. The family consist of...

Two boys playing football in the Roma settlement on 'Budulovska Street', a segregated community where around 800 people live.

A young man cuts another man's hair in Budulovska Street Roma settlement in Moldova nad Bodvou, around 30km from Kosice. Moldava and Bodvou has a population of around 11,200. Around 18% of the populat...

Ondrej (50) and his wife Janeta (42) with some of thier eight children in their flat on the Lunik IX housing estate, a decrepit complex almost entirely populated by Roma (6542 residents registered as...

A toy in a flat in the Lunik IX housing estate, a decrepit complex almost entirely populated by Roma (6542 residents registered as living there in 2015). The concrete buildings are in appalling condit...

A boy with a football in the Roma settlement on 'Budulovska Street', a segregated community where around 800 people live,

A man adjusts the satellite dish on his home in the Roma settlement on 'Budulovska Street', a segregated community where about 800 people live.

Darina with her daughter Jana and her new born granddaughter in their falt in the Lunik IX housing complex. Most of the buildings on the estate are in appalling condition but the block she lives in is...

EU and Slovakian flags hang from the town hall building in the Lunik IX housing estate, a decrepit complex almost entirely populated by Roma (6542 residents registered as living there in 2015). The co...

A child stands on a mound of debris in a Roma settlement located on 'Budulovska Street', a segregated settlement where around 800 people live.

Two girls walk arm-in-arm past a decrepit building in the Roma settlement on 'Budulovska Street', a segregated community where around 800 people live.

Sister Anna who has been at the Salesians of Don Bosco Pastoral Mission since she was invited by the bishop in 2008. She says of her work there: 'Having spent a certain period of time here, I now simp...

Siblings stand around the wood burning stove in their family flat in the Lunik IX housing complex. The accommodation was given the family when the block they lived in was demolished. The estate is alm...