The power of cooperation - What do we do to keep communities together?

The power of cooperation - What do we do to keep communities together?

We launched our project named „Strengthening and activating small communities of Northeast Hungary“ 1 May 2017, in the framework of which we cooperated with 15-17 non-governmental organizations and small communities in the North-Eastern Hungarian region every year.

We organized several workshops and meetings for the cooperating communities, through which they got to know each other, as well as the concept of volunteering, its legal framework, and the process of recruiting, involving, managing and evaluating volunteers.

During a three-day training, participants were able to learn how to assess locally the main challenges and problems affecting their community and – in order to solve them – how to organize themselves and plan solutions based on local collaboration in the form of so-called mini-projects.

Thanks to the professional assistance of their mentors and the small amount of support of our Foundation, nearly 30-40 events, community movements and actions were planned and implemented by our cooperating partners every year.
We would now like to present some of these initiatives, which can serve as a model for other communities, settlements and non-governmental organizations who want to strengthen local social responsibility and community cohesion.
Please welcome our publication about the project!