Dr. Ambedkar School

In our school the results of the survey in October were shocking.

In the autumn of 2007, sixty one students registered at the Dr. Ámbédkár Grammar School in Sajokaza. Nineteen of them were entitled to orphans annuity. If that is the case, then nearly a third of our students are orphaned. We can read much in the specialized literature on the low life expectancy and the high death rates of the gypsies. However, it’s a very different thing to read the cold numbers in the specialized literature than it is to meet this problem with the students of a high school class who are victims of this demographical symptom.

Many of our students in Sajokaza have a child early in life, so they’re mothers and fathers and students at the same time. If this is the case, then half of our students attempt graduation along with the problems of bringing up a child. But our students aren’t real adults in the proper sense of the word because their average age is 20. The average age of students who have child is just a little bit higher: 21 years.

In the process of correcting the data, we discovered a terrible fact: the child mortality rates in Solyom colony in Sajokaza are the same as the poorest countries in Africa. In the last few years, five of our students in Sajokaza have lived through the tragedy of losing their child within one or two years.

The 8% of our students who are parents have experienced the affect of bad social conditions leading to this high mortality rate for children.

The collection and processing of datas is by Istvan Lazi (Benu)