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
Would you like to come to Pécs on holiday?
You can find us on
https://pecsnyitva.hu/ website by clicking on the word “akadálymentes” (accessible) on the home page. There you will find the logo of the association, and by two clicks on it you can see our offer.
Thank you very much for sharing!
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.
