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Rroma Council is working build a network of health advisors, who can provide both nutritional counseling and help families gain access to better healthcare. In tandem, there is an effort to collect and record the Roma people’s ancient homeopathic wisdom and traditional cures.

Ideas about health and illness among the Rom are closely related to notions of good and bad luck, purity and impurity, inclusion and exclusion. As a traditionally insular community, home remedies and ritual purification, with some treatments tracing back to its knowledge and traditions developed over centuries of travel, often prevail. Today, elder Roma tend to fear that their grandchildren will lose the their traditional healing knowledge they’ve held for centuries, as they turn to American (modern) medicine.

Areas of specific concern being addressed include wide-spread respiratory problems, heart trouble and obesity.