Together we can!
Fogd a Kezem Alapítvány
Pécs, Hungary
Description
Our Foundation works with adult mentally disabled people. It operates two main services, one is the therapy- and work-related daycare centre, the other is living opportunity for the clients in a residental house. The key words describing our work is normalising, autonomy, acceptance. We would like to host volunteers, who are openminded, treat people equally, strife against prejudism. The project focuses mainly to help our clients improve their skills, their knowledge through leisure activities. We would like therefore to host one volunteer in our Daycare Centre and one volunteer in the Residental Home.We organise many integrated projects with students from gym In this project you can meet with people who has intellectual disabilities,but their hearts are so big and open. We used to have other volunteers from abroad and they always asking when will come the new member..so we are waiting for you! At here you can join the workshops we have and also go and have fun together with them.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
We rent a 2 rooms apartmant (with internet) in Pécs, where the volunteers can live. Every month we give money or food, what the volunteer can spend for food and other products, she/he needs. Things for the apartmant the Foundation can supply, also other things once in awhile. The volunteers will receive a Hungarian mobile subscription with a phone number and internet access.. We provide buspass for use to travel around the city. There is a bycicle, which can be used by the volunteer also.
Training during the activity
The sending organisation organises training for the volunteer before she/he leaves. The receiving organisation have meetings and discussions after arrival to make sure the volunteer understands everything about the program and the project. The volunteer is asked to participate on arrival meeting and halfway meeting organised and implemented by the National Agency of Hungary. If possible, we like our volunteers to participate other trainings also, and even training after going home, when the project ends.
Participant profile
We would like our volunteers to be openminded and socially sensitive. We work with adult mentally disabled people, who are some ways act differently as "normal" people. Sometimes they don't look so nice. On the other hand they feel, if people don't accept them. We would like, that the volunteer would be capable of accepting our clients and treat them, as they would treat any other persons without disability. We don't await the volunteer to have experience from this field, but we would like, that she/he would be willing to learn from our professional helpers.
Activity dates
A total of 47 week(s) during the period 06/07/2026 to 31/08/2027
Activity location
Kovács Béla utca 10. , Pécs, Hungary
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Social challenges
Health and wellbeing
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 30/04/2027 23:00
Project code
2025-1-HU01-ESC51-VTJ-000346382