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. ....

We held a great open year-end general assembly on 07.12.2018 in Speckó. We talked about how much did we do this year and a future task. Yes, a lot of things we did this year:

The People First Association participate in an international project, its first kick-off meeting was held between 30.11.-03.12.2018 in Barcelona and Corbera.

The People First Association - Pécs participate in the campaign inKLOsiv between 19.11.-03.12.2018 to draw attention how important are barrier-free toilets to the disabled people.

The blind executive director of MindTags start-up company in Berlin has developed a smart phone or tablet useable information and route planning method for the blind and visually impaired people, what we can call like as "digital ramp".

We are very happy to announce that our Association has won with the project called "Pécs is livable as a barrier-free city" at the Pécsi Community Foundation,  “Pécs's future foundation 2018 Community Creativity projects”.