The People First Association awaits the stakeholders for a thought-provoking, future-shaping conference. The theme of the conference is accessibility, in particular the accessibility of historic buildings, which is particularly topical in Pécs.

Our aim is to raise awareness of the essence and importance of accessibility, especially for those who are in a position to make decisions.
University students who shape the future are also very important, and we provide them useful informations.

Where? Pécs, Szent István tér 17., barrierfree conference room of the House of Civil Communities
When? 10. November 2021, 10.00-16.00

The conference is free of charge, but registration is required. Please indicate your intention to participate to the pfpecs@gmail.com email address.

Since the summer we have organized several events in our InnClusive community space, which started in July. There’s been a writer-reader meeting, a “sound bath”, a creative session… and we’re launching more and more from autumn.

We also launch our regular clubs, which aim even more to build a community and generate encounters where participants will be sensitive to social inclusion and acceptance.

Our first club is intended for parents who raise children with disabilities or difficulties. Whether they’re little or already adults. We have noticed that mothers and fathers do not really get help in dealing with what has happened, so it is often more difficult for them than for the child himself. In fact, in many cases they don’t even realize that it would be good to get help, and that’s why they don’t ask for it.
We would like to provide them with self-help meetings at the Parent Club, where they can tell us what solution they found, share good experiences, contacts, ideas, talk themselves out. Sometimes we will invite an expert who gives a new impetus to the conversations.

And in our Film club we show unconventional films that also steer our thoughts towards social inclusion. In many cases, this does not even require the topic to be specifically disability. You’re guaranteed to see movies you didn’t know. And then, with the leaders of the film clubs, we’ll talk about what we’ve seen and heard with a little popcorn.

Follow the activities on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PeopleFirstHun

You can read more about the InnClusive here: https://peoplefirst.hu/en/befogado/

The People First Association was also invited to the ceremonial general meeting held on the occasion of the Day of the City Pécs. This festive day is 1. September every year in honor of the fact that Hungary first university was founded in Pécs on 1. September 1367. It is also the Day of Hungarian Higher Education.

It was an uplifting feeling to be a citizen of Pécs at the National Theatre of Pécs, listening to the mayor’s speech, which is finally nonpolitical and encourages cooperation and understanding of each other’s values. Art spots were also an experience. We were able to applaud really excellent people at the ceremony of the Pécs city awards, we warmly congratulate you all!

However, the most valuable thing for us that we could meet on the city’s celebration the other NGOs working selflessly for Pécs. We hope, after that, we civilians will become more and more important in the thinking of the town hall.

The Program of the V. Barrier-free Tourism Day has been completed. We reserve the right to make changes.

We organize the Barrier-free Tourism Day in the beutiful Orfű near Pécs  this year again. As always on the first Saturday of September, that is 04.09. Between 10.00 and 16.00, we welcome everyone to the island, the Sports Camp and the Medvehagyma House.

The main aim of the event is still to provide experiences for people with disabilities that they cannot otherwise experience in everyday life. Examples of such experiences will be dragon boating, speedboating, horse riding, motorcycling, fishing or driving a car as visually impaired.

In addition, our basic goal is to make people with disabilities and people with disabilities have fun together and get to know each other. Therefore, in our complementary programs you will be able to try out various sports, there will be music, plays, puppet performances, counselling, podium discussions, sound bowl sessions, food and drink and many interesting things.

We are trying to publish the exact program catalogue at the end of August, follow us on the Event’s Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/turizmus.akadalymentes

Read more about Barrier-free Tourism Day also in English here: https://akadalymentesnap.hu/

We’re on!

From 01.07.2021 our old dream starts: the “InnClusive” Community Space in Pécs. The basic purpose of this is to promote inculsion and independent living.

We’ve come up with a lot of good programs for the next 3 years, but we won’t start without you. We’re excited about your ideas and comments! We would like the programs, clubs, discussions, trainings and events to be built together on your suggestions.

Help us form how we can be as enjoyable and useful together as possible, able bodied, disabled, elderly, families with children/strollers….all of us.

So we created a questionnaire (in Hungarian) that can be filled out in 5-7 minutes: https://forms.gle/AYfXhXLRWdLu8ZHh8

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.