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.
Since its establishment, the Carpathian Foundation-Hungary has paid special attention to the development of disadvantaged, socially excluded, primarily Roma communities, and to supporting their social integration. In the 2019/2020 season, 13 non-governmental organizations received more than HUF 43 million in support of our program called "Building Capacities for Effective Early Childhood Development of Marginalized Roma in Hungary".
The ambassador of Sweden was our guest
His Excellency Dag Hartelius, the Swedish Ambassador of Budapest, invited by the Carpathian Foundation made a visit in and around Eger on 13 July 2021. The ambassador began his visit at the town hall of Eger, where he was received by Deputy Mayor Gábor Minczér.
Marginalized Roma communities on the northeast of Hungary face systematic violations of human rights, e.g. segregation at school, discrimination and often deceit on the labour market, exclusion from many kinds of basic public services, such as health care, or abuse or encroachment of police, or other public institutions, officials.
We had a kick off meeting of the „Know your rights!” project on 23rd June 2021, that is implemented with the financial support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. The main goal of the project is to set up a scalable, adaptable model program aiming at empowering three marginalized Roma communities to have better access to their basic opportunities (live with their rights) at every sphere of life.
The Carpathian Foundation launched the "Playing for Change!" project in the spring of 2021 with the support of the LEGO Group.
The world is facing unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 epidemic, there is hardly a community on Earth that was not affected, the economies of all countries are suffering from the consequences. However, people came together to fight the epidemic, COVID brought together governments, industry and sector organizations, and individuals to help together. The level of global solidarity and support posed by the common challenge has been remarkably high in recent times.
At the beginning of June, we held a two-day professional meeting in Eger as part of our Early Years Matter program. The workshop was attended by representatives of our partner / supported organizations, professionals organizing early childhood development programs, the staff of our foundation and Éva Szomor, a special education teacher, early childhood development specialist who has been helping the successful implementation of the program for many years.
We were so busy, we almost forgot to share a great news with you:
for this year’s children’s day we donated boxes of toys to 5,000 disadvantaged child with the help of our local partners , thanks to the support of LEGO Group.
