Photo: Réka Makula (the picture was taken at one of the sessions in Nyíregyháza)
Even the poorest children have the right for proper development.
The Carpathian Foundation distributes more than 500 development games.
When children play, they also learn, a they acquire lifelong skills of collaboration, communication and problem solving – those skills that children in the most deprived areas desperately need.
The Carpathian Foundation, during its ‘Playing is our passion!’ action supported by LEGO Group, provides opportunities for 504 preschoolers and elementary school children living in deep poverty to learn through play.
Children take part in developmental activities through their abilities and skills improve, and at the end of the sessions they receive (possibly their first) LEGO set – as a gift.
Many researches support that learning through play is essential for children’s psychological, emotional and cognitive health and development. The game enhances kids ‘collaborative skills, helpfulness, and the joy of teamwork, which will help their integration, overcoming obstacles and disadvantages and is therefore a good basis for building their future.
Children living in deep poverty especially require these skills. In addition, the pandemic particularly affected these children and their families. Thanks to the donation of the toy company, the Carpathian Foundation can support kids’ development among these extraordinary circumstances. Within the “Playing is our passion” action, more than 500 disadvantaged children living in the Northern Hungary and Northern Great Plain regions are affected: they start to make up their developmental backwardness, and to catch up with their skills. The foundation cooperates with 12 regional non-governmental partner organizations, which conduct local activities in 15 settlements from Nyíregyháza to Eger, from Tomor to Nagyecsed.
“The mission of Our Foundation is to support and catch up with children and families living in deep poverty. In these sessions, children learn to play in community setting and with their peers: this is the most useful atmosphere for them to discover the world, making their socialization and communication process completed. These children are often deprived of toys. ’We hope that the joint game will help them relax and recharge after a long, often monotonous, sometimes anxious period since spring, and their school and kindergarten year will run less anxiously’, said Boglárka Bata, the director of the Carpathian Foundation.
Each participant will receive a LEGO set as a gift. They can take it home and practice for home learning tasks with their siblings so their families gain the experience of playing together.
Since its establishment, the Carpathian Foundation has been a committed supporter of programs that improve the quality of life of communities, families and children living in poverty. For many years, it has been working in close partnership with CSOs, supporting them in fighting for the same goals. Every year, it distributes 40 Million HUF in grants to projects aimed at the early childhood development of 300-400 children living in difficult circumstances, in deprived areas or (informal) settlements. Within the granted projects, regular skill development programs, excursions and camps are organized for children, which are unavailable or hardly available to them in these rural areas.
Further information:
Bata Boglárka, director
+ 36-20-573-6644
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