We received a surprisingly dismissive response to our letter complaining about the handling of cases of our peers in the second wave of Covid viruses. Unfortunately, the head of the institution in Pécs completely ignored the willingness of our letter to help, its desire for a common solution, and we received a rejection showing a complete lack of cooperation.

The law allows us to contact the maintainer if we disagree. Of course we disagree, because we cannot agree with the interpretation of epidemiological standards without empathy and humaneness, we will continue to strive for partnership and continue to help. This is what we have declared to the the maintenance organisation in our appeal  letter today, trusting in their understanding. We hope they recognize that we share common goals and continue to offer help.

You can read again our previous post in the News menu with the title below: “Letter of complaint to alleviate institutional closures”

The reply to our complaint and our appeal letter are only available in Hungarian. If you are interested in details, please contact us: pfpecs@gmail.com

We are always very glad to be able to involve young people in our work and show them what the life is like as a disabled person.

We work regularly with high school students, many of them apply to complete their 50-hour community service with us. It’s very good with them, they almost don’t need to be sensitized, for them the acceptance of differentness is absolutely natural.  ♿️

Such an open area is the world of university students, to which our long-standing goal was to get closer. Thanks to the University of Pécs’s Vocational College of Social Inclusion and our member of the association  Molnár Gyöngyi we have already participated in several courses, made a video debut with the students (professionally), they volunteered with us. Now at the conference on Communities and Organisations we were talking to many of them in the Community Learning and Disability section.

It was a very good experience, thank you! stay with us guys! ?

Some members of our association live in institutions because of their disabilities. The first wave of COVID has already put them in a very difficult situation by being completely isolated for three months, neither allowed to go out or receive visitors in any form. At the moment, in the second wave, they are forced to go through the same thing.

This degree of isolation causes serious psychological and mental problems and violates fundamental human rights in the exercise of free religion, freedom of movement and work. For short, it is not fair from the point of view of social coexistence, because we – people outside the institution – are still free to walk, work, have fun, travel, manage our affairs, shop.

We are today delivering official juice to the maintainers and managers of the institution concerned in Pécs looking for a common solution and offering our help in several forms, to which we expect a response within 15 days as a complaint.

The contents of the letter are only available in Hungarian. If you are interested in details, please contact us: pfpecs@gmail.com

Hello, we’re the sticker team!
Kriszta, Péter, Evelin, Balázs, Szandra, Veronika, Henriett and Roland.

For two years we have been going through the shops, hotels, restaurants, public institutions, tourist attractions, churches, tourist trails, public toilets of Pécs to discover and collect for you in a free database about what is really accessible, in English too. Here: http://peoplefirst.hu/akadalymentes-pecs/

In the team we have wheelchair users, visually impaired, hearing impaired, disabled people with reduced mobility, former strollers, and we share our own experiences and photos with you.
Now a section is over, but we’re not going to stop, there’s more to discover in the city! We also need to constantly update the places that have already been explored, because what was accessible yesterday may not be so today, or vice versa it has finally become one.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SUPPORTERS TO CONTINUE OUR WORK!

A professional photo camera that you no longer use would be of great help to us, because at the moment the photos are taken with cellphone. We also need money, because we have to make stickers to the entrances, indicating to you that this room is really accessible. We make posters to involve the people of Pécs in the work. And we have a small team that works a lot for a lot of people, they’re also paid.

Help us, let’s do it together, support our work even with your service!

The People First Association co-organized an international Peer-AcT conference.

The midterm conference was organised on 04.09.2020 in Orfű/Hungary, and due the Corona-situation we also broadcasted it online.  5 countries participated in the conference on accessible tourism and the results of the Peer-AcT project so far. ((More on Peer-AcT project here in the Projects menu on the website)

Several members of the People First Association played a leading role in it, very good and actively. Thanks especially Vida Ágota and Hildegard Kerekes!

We attended the first review meeting of the Local Equality Program 2018-2023 at the Town Hall in Pécs today.

The purpose of the review is to update the data, analyse the situation, track the achievement of the objectives and deadlines, if necessary amendments.

The former working groups are still alive, and the People First Association will continue to work with our disability team.

On 10-11-12th August 2020 we participated in a meeting in three German cities, where we presented the activities of the association and discussed our participation in the Social Inclusion Action Day in September.

In Bad Salzungen, Merseburg and Erfurt our German partners listened with great interest to what the People First Association was working on, especially social sensitisation and accessibility.

Our main topic was the presentation of our Hidden City Tor-Tour, which they would like to learn from us, and in September we will help them try something similar in several German cities. To do this, we will travel to Germany with some members of the association  from 21th to 27th September.

For more information about the Hidden City Tor-Tour, see the Projects menu on the website.

We have previously reported that the People First Association is calling for an investigation into serious breaches of disability in the Covid-19 outbreak.

In mid-July, we sent our submission to the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Dr. Kozma Ákos.

It gives particular topicality to the submission, we are preparing for the second wave and that the institutions continue to have strange restrictive measures towards our members.

In a request, supported by TASZ with facts and data, we asked the Ombudsman to initiate an own-matter inquiry and to make appropriate recommendations before a possible second wave of epidemics.

We’ll cover the developments, follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PeopleFirstHun/

We held a ‘Peer-counselor in accessible tourism’ 2-day online and 3-day personal training in our Peer-AcT international project for 10 people with disabilities in the days in Pécs.

Participants can work as consultants by tourism organisations, decision-makers, municipalities, tourist websites, or even expanding their existing job as consultants on accessible tourism.

If you would like to take their first-hand experience and useful knowledge of the international project, tell us: pfpecs@gmail.com

Now that all our team members have been released from quarantine detention, we’re back at full speed to the sticker project to explore the barrier-free locations of Pécs!

We discovered two Spar shops recently, both of which we have a very responsive attitude. Thank you Spar Hungary!

We kept working, found new cafes, restaurants, sports facilities. In fact, we have visited two large surgery institute and are exploring new accessible tourist trails.

You can read about this all the time on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PeopleFirstHun/

or more in the Accessibility Pécs menu on our website in English too: http://peoplefirst.hu/en/akadalymentes-pecs/

We are very happy with your comment, your opinion, your own experience!