Petofi is an Olah settlement on the outskirts of Sajokaza. Here live 200 people from six or eight family clans, with no sanitation and one water pump on the main access road.
The Olah have strong connections with animals, horses in particular and growing, unlike their Romungro counterparts.
The women are continually washing clothes and brushing the earthen floors outside their habitations, cooking and child-minding while the men look after the livestock.
Cooking takes place outdoors using the wood gathered daily.
Some of the young women have been to school and their parents are insisting on higher education - not early marriage!!! Viktoria, one of the young women had just graduated as a nursery nurse and is looking forward to her new job at the also new Ambedkar Gymnasium creche.
They were extremely welcoming and happy that we visited them.
Horses feeding on cut meadow grass
Hay stack
Access road - Gabor coming to see what's happnin'
Kavics family group
Pig food
Kavics feeding his horses
Rabbit food !
Cleaning and recycling bricks
Lakatos Sandor and Wilmos the horse
Renata in her garden
Every day is washing day in this telep!
Feri hugging his mother
Zolti - holding up the house while Ana cooks
Robert (extreme right) a Romanes speaker and his family
Edi Neni outside her house
Edi Neni in the kitchen
Peter, her son
Sunday, 2 August 2009
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