Homestead Janitors from Komádi till Hajdúnánás

Abstract

The homesteads of the Alföld are unique settlements in Europe with their specific culture, lifestyle and centuries-old values. Life on the homesteads has always been quite deprived, as the residents had to cope with a lot of backlogs in order to be sustainable. In recent decades, residents have grown older and the opportunities provided by homesteads are no longer attractive to offspring and younger generations, so the number of residents and units is gradually decreasing. In the struggle to make life easier for older residents and to maintain offspring, the homestead janitor is the one who fights one-on-one with the parenting service as a basic social service. The primary purpose of my study was to obtain up-to-date information on the identity, composition, qualifications, area of homestead janitors of the material security service providers in Hajdú-Bihar County, and secondly, to find out how these professionals view the future of the homesteads. In the course of the research I contacted all the homestead janitors of Hajdú-Bihar County, who I asked through a questionnaire, and interviewed some of them and the maintainers providing the homestead janitors service, from which I made a self-made database.