Hello, this is the Gépház (Engine Room) speaking also on our site. Full steam ahead every Friday at 8:00 p.m!
We’re going to start a new thing again: from now on we’re going to share with you the weekly program guides of the (Gépház) Engine Room radio show so that as many people as possible can follow the great show of our member Róbert Rauch and two colleagues.
What’s this show?
The Engine Room is a joint IT magazine of MVGYOSZ (Hungarian Association of Visually impaired and Blind) and the Net-Media Foundation with accessibility in the crosshairs. Blind and visually impaired people dissect the possibilities offered by IT, presenting softwares and tools. And you can ask by readers letter!
It will be broadcast live on Hobby radio every Friday at 8 p.m. for about 1 hour. There’s always a guest who adds colour to an already fun, laid-back show.
Current program guides can now be found on the People First Association’s Facebook page every Thursday from now on.
Link:
www.hobbyradio.hu/play
The database of truly accessible locations in Pécs and its immediate surroundings now includes more than 60 locations, which are constantly being reviewed and added new ones.
As a result of our own IT development (thanks to Z. Borsodi and Balázs Oláh), together with the website, it became completely accessible, the appearance and search became simpler and more reasonable.
It’s mobile-friendly, which means you can see the same thing on your mobile phone as on your computer. The descriptions have been added with a map display so you can instantly search for where the object is located. You can also print the descriptions so that you can take them with you if necessary.
Also new is that you’ll find the database on a separate button on the Home page to make it even easier to find.
To know exactly what it is, we will briefly describe everything in the Barrier-free Pécs (EN) menu item. Here you will also find a Instructions and even the currently accessible accessible parking spaces in Pécs in the Disabled parking spaces submenu.
And all this remains free of charge, in Hungarian and English.
We wish you a good browsing, and nice days in Pécs!
We’ve been planning an international project for three years, and now it’s coming to fruition! Can you imagine what that feels like?
With the support of Aktion Mensch in Germany, we will create a community space in Pécs, which will act as the Independent Living Centre.
Soon you can come to us for a coffee, ask for information, advice , participate in trainings, workshops, clubs, events, exhibitions.
We’ll do it all with you, according to what you need.
Our main partner in this is Verein zur sozialen und beruflichen Integration e.V. – VSBI in Germany, and the venue will be in the separate accessible building of the House of Civil Communities.
For more information about our Aktion Mensch project here on our website in
projects menu.
We’ve launched our own YouTube channel!
You can see short, exciting, attention-grabbing little films about us here, with us.
Sign up, be a follower and like-old whichever you particularly like.
We are also very happy with your comments. You can write what you want to see about us.
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. 🙂
We regularly report on the project to our donators in a direct e-mail, and to those interested in our Barrier-free Pécs database here on our web site.
In our first Newsletter we can report on:
- the team was formed in December 2020. We have prepared an accurate action and funding plan
- In January 2021 we held a consultation with Deputy Mayor Lajos Nyögéri. The main topic was cooperation on the Accessible Pécs database
- we evaluated the 2020 Live Broadcast (“Élő Adás”) with the Pécs Community Foundation in January, and in March we continued with how this year can be even more exciting, and what can we former participants help with?
- experiencing the power of the community, we have become familiar with and participate in other community donation systems
- we have received several requests for partnerships, which will bring a new color and new aspects to the database.
- Thanks to our new member from the USA and our IT engineer Balázs Oláh, we are currently in the process of perfecting the database. This is very important for us, because professionalism is one of our basic expectations for ourselves.
- In February 2014 we consulted with the Department of Economic Development at the Town Hall, where we decided on the cooperation that would benefit the citizens of Pécs in various forms in the future in the field of accessible urban development, tourism and city marketing.
- we made short films with the team members showing “Why do I care about the sticker team?” It will be visible on Facebook soon.
- we have revisited many locations, agreed, discussed and so far seen many positive changes in accessibility in the city. All this is displayed continuously in the database.
- the supported printer/scanner is in constant work, thank you very much to BolkoDesign! We also hope to get the cameras on offer as soon as possible and take high-quality pictures of the locations. This is important because it lets everyone decide for himself, how can a location be accepted for them from an accessible point of view
That’s where we are now. Due to the 3rd wave of Covid, the country will be closed for two weeks, so now we are doing administrative/organizing work, but we will start again at the end of March.
We are planning our conference in Pécs for the summer with the national participants and decision-makers involved in the topic.
This year, in addition to updating the existing locations, we will also explore the accessibility of all hotels and accommodations in Pécs.
All this is done by team members for a minimum fee, but with maximum heart! We love this project and we will never stop 🙂
Follow us and our sticker project on Facebook in English too: https://www.facebook.com/PeopleFirstHun
and on our website: http://peoplefirst.hu/en/
You can also find our accessible Pécs database on our website: http://peoplefirst.hu/en/akadalymentes-pecs/
We wish you a good spring, perseverance, good health!
Veronika Pataki, President
and the People First “sticker” team
