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Mar 05, 2025

Dear friends,

Last week, Pepi suffered an injury at his street-cleaning job: a shard of broken glass flew into his eye. Despite him taking some antibiotics that were prescribed to him, he still has a lot of bleeding in his eye and some vision impairment, and he was admitted into hospital today.

We will be pausing our blog and YouTube for 1 to 2 weeks.

In the meantime, here is a recent and topical article from us about the reality of Romani life.

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The hidden dangers of street cleaning

Here in Bulgaria, mainstream society looks down on the minimum-wage street cleaning employment not only because it is “low class.” Even more so because it is done almost exclusive by the Roma minority and, according to most onlookers, it’s an easy job. Sweeping some streets, loading some trash into trucks, what’s the big deal…

5 months ago · 2 likes · Martina Petkova and Pepi Mustafov

We will be back soon.

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Martina and Pepi

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