Introducing the African-Hungarian Union

The African-Hungarian Union is an international NGO, which was founded in 2006 by the prominent members of African diaspora in Hungary with the aim of promoting cultural exchange, awareness raising and advocacy, while offering a base for development and humanitarian initiatives focusing on the African continent.

Education and Cultural Programs

Our organization has been working together with several academics specialized in African studies, thus part of our mission became to ensure the spreading of their collected knowledge. This approach resulted in several fruitful collaborations, such as the Africa Knowledge Base, which has grown into a leading project among our cultural and educational initiatives since its foundation in 2013.

Our work in this field includes cultural and educational events, such as presentations, photo exhibitions, movie nights and discussions.

Sensitization programs – Konipa Afrika! – Teach about Africa!

Konipa Afrika! – Teach about Africa! is a complex sensitizing program especially for children.

The main goal of the project is forming a view of Africa which is real, free from preconception or over-idealization. The program has an important role in early education for tolerance and developing sensitivity towards minorities.

Our pre-school program gives basic knowledge of different fields connected to the African continent.

In our program the children give feedback of their acquired knowledge in a playful way. 

The Elementary school program is also a one-year-long project. The lecturer teaches about Africa, especially about Nigeria in the first semester, while in the second semester they start to communicate with Africans living in Hungary, and to correspond with Nigerian students of similar age.

As a part or introduction of our program we regularly organize special “Africa-classes” or thematic “Africa-days”.

The main focus of the High school program is on building academic knowledge.

Child support programs

AHU has supported orphanages and schools in Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali, Ethiopia and Uganda in cooperation with local foundations and organizations.

We have been running these child support programs since 2010.

The initiatives focus on children in need, being orphans, handicapped, or coming from extremely poor families. These programs offer foster parent sponsorship for the donors, who can support the education and the nursing of a chosen child by a certain amount of donation on a monthly basis. We inform all our donors on a regular basis about the children’s development, their successes and difficulties, and the possible course of their future.

AHU Medical Team

Our organization operates with a base of doctors and medical professionals who volunteer to take part in our various programs for free of charge. These great people gain not only life time experiences, but through their unique knowledge, they prove to be a useful asset for our societies in the Central-European based programs as well.