“I see a meaning in my life”: Kumar Vishwanathan on three decades of supporting Roma in Czechia 

Among the recipients of state awards on Wednesday’s Czechoslovak Independence Day was Kumar Vishwanathan, an Indian-born social worker who has devoted decades of his life to helping Czechia’s Roma community. Vishwanathan quit a teaching job to work with Roma who lost their homes in flooding in Ostrava in 1997 and eventually helped set up the city’s Coexistence Village, which he still heads.

The Office of the President said you had received the Medal of Merit for “long advocating for a dignified life for the Roma and their co-existence with the majority society.

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Author: Ian Willoughby