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A band of Bucharest street children pass around a brown bag holding a bottle of furniture solvent, their drug of choice. The abandoned sewer tunnel offers them shelter from the rain and often serves as their bedroom.

Some street children were trying to earn a living by cleaning the windshields of idling cars at stoplights. 'If we go to school,' one said, 'we starve.'

After taking her morning bath in a public fountain, a gypsy girl reaches out to a friend.

in the village if Fintinele, Rome musicians cry out prayers in a Pentecostal church.

All eyes in a crowded room were on a dying Gypsy man as his chest heaved his last breaths.

A young girl looks on as a Gypsy community keeps vigil during the death of Ilie Constratin at his home.

Emiian Niculae surveys the ruins of a family member's home, which was burned down by a mob trying to rid the town of Gypsies. An empty lot is all that remains of his own home.

Anti-Gypsy graffiti was scrawled on the stall of a flower vendor, a popular occupation for Gypsies in Bucharest.

A child sleeps in her mother's arms as she listens to Roma musicians at the funeral of a relative.

Exhausted. Paul Hays receives support and advice from Coach Alvin Stewart while waiting for the last players to leave before locking up the school. Paul was finishing a 16-hour day of teaching and coaching.