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You can find the People First Association’s Youtube channel here: People First Youtube

With today’s kick-off meeting, i.e. the distribution of tasks our international Erasmus+ project called ARTcoWorkers has begun.

The project is carried out in cooperation with four countries, aiming to combine art, creative industry – and disability, human rights, social inclusion. All this under the flag of the pandemic, as it is where now the arts/creative industry and people with disabilities are most needed help. Of course, the effects of the project are long-term.

Today’s meeting was originally scheduled to take place in Erfurt, Germany, but the pandemic intervened here too, so the project partners met online for the first time from Germany, Hungary, Macedonia and the Netherlands.

We will continue to develop the methodology, i.e. the theoretical background, and soon the PR team will meet on 17. May. It’s going to be a very exciting project, keep an eye on developments!

Last year on 31. July 2020. we sent a complaint to the Ombudsman. We indicated in it, that the practises of the institutions in Covid are very different. There are places where the elderly and disabled can be visited to this day, but in other places residents have to live locked for almost a year.

The Ombudsman waited almost for the end of the third wave of Covid. But at least he answered. At length, in detail, politely, but…..Just the requested guideline for the heads of institutions is missing, with wich they could make a prepared decision in future epidemics, they would not violet fundamental human rights and segregate groups of people.

You can read the history in our previous posts in the News menu.

The letter can be read in Hungarian: Intézményi bezártság Ombudsman válasz 2021.03.30.

We were invited to the Tourism Roundtable yesterday from the town hall.

It is a great pleasure and an honor for us to represent and spread the idea of accessible tourism on the touristic spectrum of the city. We believe that it will soon be seen visible.

This article describes an option available only in Hungary. People can donate 1% of personal income tax to NGOs.

NgOs therefore campaign every year to raise as many 1% as possible. That’s what we do. 🙂

On the Day of Hungarian Parasport on 22.02.2021, the organizing committee held its first meeting at the Medvehagyma House in Orfű. Online our volunteers had the opportunity to comment on last year’s evaluation and the basic ideas for this year’s event.

What is already certain: we are planning the 5th, – birthday – Barrier-free Tourism Day on 04.09.2021. on Saturday.

We would like to continue to hold a preparatory workshop so that we can adapt as much as possible to the needs of people with disabilities and those who offer the programme of the event.

We plan to work closely with as many partner organisations as possible, and we will also invite a patron to represent the festival.

However, we are looking forward to sponsors, as for the first time this year we do not see any application support for our niche and unique event! We are happy with ideas and help, let’s organize together!

On the evening of 18. 02..2021, due to the Covid outbreak, we gathered and discussed our things in an unconventional way on Zoom.

Our topics were the evaluation of the year 2020, the discussion of the 2021 plans, and then the questions, requests and ideas of membership.

This year’s plans include many exciting things, such as:

• Participation in the Erasmus + ARTcoWORKers project as a Hungarian partner
• Active participation in the organisation of the V. Barrier-free Tourism Day
• Continuation of the “sticker” project 3, professional and IT development of the Barrier-free Pécs database
• in case of the winning evaluation of our German application, the establishment of a community space and a centre for independent living
• start own projects
• the protection of interests during the Covid epidemic
• search and write applications continuously, successful follow-up of winning applications
• further coordinate the work of the 16 local disability NGOs involved in the writing of HEP 2018-2023 and support the implementation of their tasks
• cultivating existing and new relationships with the University of Pécs, taking part in university courses, further reception of community servicers with secondary schools

The biggest interest within the association is in our  ARTcoWORKers (EN)  project and the development of our Barrier-free Pécs (EN) database.

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Our sticker team is back at work, what does Covid matter to us! 🙂 Of course, we are only going to the locations that are accessible despite the epidemic.

Our professional team can continue its work thanks to the “Live Broadcast” community fundraising event of the Pécs Community Foundation. In other words, we have the support of the people of Pécs and who feel Pécs important.

In the first round we are updating the more than 60 locations in our Accessible Pécs database so that no one is surprised if you visit one of them. So far, however, we have only seen positive changes! Each change will be added to the database and reported on our Facebook page. Keep following us. We welcome your comments and questions!

You can find the Accessible Pécs database in English here: Barrier-free Pécs (EN)

You can read about sticker projects (and all our other projects) here: Our projects

And our Facebook page is available here: Facebook