You don't have a huge amount of investment and other scary things to think about, you can be a partner so that you are the customer of the business or you have good ideas to add!

Our goal to set up the system of Personal Assistance in Hungary has come to a very important stage. The Independent Living of persons with disabilities is what we invision in the long term future. Independent Living means that we can decide on the issues that affect our lives as disabled people and that we have access to all the supportive services that enable us to do so.

We took part in a round table discussion yesterday in Budapest. The Theme was the support of the independent living of Hungarian disabled people, develop a Hungarian strategy.

We don't stop! End of last year established the Pécs Local Equal Opportunity Programme 2018-2023. The disability-related chapter is written by active local NGO-s. We are working to make our suggestions come true!

We signed a cooperation agreement with the Kodály Zoltán High School Pécs, so more high school students will work with us as community service.

The Emberség Erejével Alapítvány (Human Power Foundation) announced the tender of Strengthening Civil Organisations 2019. as part of a program Open Society Foundations. 144 tenders were submitted to the reading committee in December 2018 and 64 of these were awarded to support in January 2019 - including the project of People First Association: “If there's no barrier, we're coming too! 🙂 “

"Our goal is to continue the establishment of the Hungarian network of user led PA services by collecting and sharing information and experience regarding PA, to support and disseminate the conclusions of participatory researches on connected issues and to generate discourse in the Hungarian judicial and social context. We aim to generate an empowered local forum which connects international knowledge regarding PA systems with the Hungarian framework to successfully constitute accessible PA services."

A year has past, a very active and effective one. Let's see what had People First HU done in 2018?  We've been on a study-tour in Germany and they came here, to Hungary. The association has changed, new Base Rules, new presidency, new plans, the number of our members is continuously increasing. ....