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More than 500 books were donated to local communities, community centers and nonprofit organizations by the TESCO during autumn 2017.

As its local partner, the Carpathian Foundation-Hungary provided assistance to the TESCO in the redistribution of the books, and mainly organizations serving disadvantaged children and families, vulnerable persons were supported before Santa Claus and Christmas.

28 November 2017

Did you know that #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

This day organizers and non-profit and charitable organizations taking part at this initiative would like to enhance giving primarily by the power of social media and collaboration. On this day individuals can meet several opportunities to get involved in their own communities through voluntary work as well.

This year we would like to contribute to the conscious holiday preparations of our supporters, partners and donors through our “Give Differently” campaign instead of raising funds, or organizing a Christmas party.

The main aim of our “Give Differently” campaign is to raise awareness to the sustainable, smart, and socially useful money spending that concerns and validates community aspects, and to the various forms of giving and philanthropic activities.

This project will engage international football players that are willing to donate 1% or more of their wages to the Common Goal Fund that is managed by the King Baudouin Foundation.

The launch event of the project "Strengthening and Activating Small Communities of Northern Hungarian Settlements" (EFOP-1.3.5-16-2016-00915) was successfully organized on 12 October 2017 with nearly 80 participants.

On October 9, 2017, in Eger, we hosted a delegation of 50 Ukrainian and Moldovan mayors and municipal representatives who came to Eger to study how waste management is concluded in Hungary.

We have successfully closed the first training session of the involved communities on 14 September 2017 in the framework of our project "Strengthening and Activating Small Communities of Northeast Hungary" (EFOP-1.3.5-16-2016-00915).

The goal of the training was to assist and prepare the representatives and volunteers of the involved communities, institutions, and civic organizations to be able to effectively assess the local needs, and problems and based on these findings how to implement their local development initiatives, so called mini projects.

On the 17th August, 2017 we had a successful workshop on voluntarism organized in Balassagyarmat within the framework of the project "Strengthening and Activating Small Communities of Northeast Hungary" (EFOP-1.3.5-16-2016-00915). The primary purpose of the program was to prepare the representatives of small communities and NGOs in Nógrád county participating in the project on how to receive, recruit and manage volunteers. The event covered the legally regulated framework of school community service, its local practice, and the importance of mentoring and rewarding volunteers.

Our director, Boglárka Bata met Yuko Kambara-Yamane, Associate Professor of Center for Fundamental Education (Cultural/Social Anthropology) of The University of Kitakyushu, Japan.

On 2 August, 2017 we commemorated together with the Support the Poor Foundation of Eger and Green Conncections Association on the Generation square of Eger in memory of the victims of the Roma Holocaust. The event begun to fall into oblivion, however we believe we should not let such a genocide happen again thus we need to remember.