PLOVDIV, Bulgaria: Small armies of teachers, social workers and police officers are swarming across Bulgaria to carry out a herculean task—convince tens of thousands of Roma parents to send their children to school.

It is part of a new state initiative aimed at tackling soaring illiteracy and a high number of teenage pregnancies in the impoverished community, which accounts for 10 percent of Bulgaria’s seven million people.

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