Our
Association
The basic ojectives of Ethnolife, our recently established
association, are fostering
tradition, presenting and promoting the way peasants used
to live on small farms and in villages, and preserving material values
of the past for future generations.
One of our objectives is to establish an ethno-house showing the
cluster of buildings characteristic for Ludas small farms of the past.
We also aim at creating a public collection of all utensils of the
past peasant world. By now these articles have lost the importance
they once had in the everyday life of villages and small farms.
After becoming redundant in our „developing world”,
they were stored in people’s attics, and after a while
considered trash and thrown away, burned or destroyed in some other
way. We think it is very important to save the remained articles from
ruin. Our association has therefore entered into an agreement with the
owner of Roka’s farm about free permanent use of the buildings,
the yard and the garden. The above mentioned make up more than a
hundred years old, authentic small farm of monumental value, and are
suitable for developing a Ludas ethno-house.
Our association deals above all with fostering traditions,
environmental education, organisation of summer camps and programmes.
Moreover, it plans to develop a network in the region which would
undertake to present small farms with similar assets and intentions.