Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:27:52 +0200https://english.radio.cz/kumar-vishwanathan-extraordinary-decision-join-homeless-roma-8063228© 2026 Radio Prague International In July 1997 floods swept through the city of Ostrava in the east of the Czech Republic. The entire district of Hrusov was devastated, leaving dozens of Roma families homeless. At that time Kumar Vishwanathan, a young physics teacher from India, was working at a school about sixty kilometers away in Olomouc. In the wake of the floods he made an extraordinary decision that completely changed his life - to help the homeless Roma families by moving in with them into their emergency accommodation. Five years later Kumar is still working with the Ostrava Roma. Here he talks about that decision.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/kumar-vishwanathan-extraordinary-decision-join-homeless-roma-8063228 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9