Hungarian government to support NGOs helping people with disabilities

The government is supporting NGOs that help people living with disabilities and their families by a total of 171.5 million forints (EUR 560,000) available through tender, the human resources ministry state secretary for social affairs and inclusion said on Monday. 

The Government supports the initiatives of non-governmental organisations helping handicapped people and their families. Those organisations are eligible to submit applications in response to the call for proposals with an allocation worth almost HUF 171.5 million in total to be closed on Wednesday which seek to launch local, regional or national programmes to combat isolation, Károly Czibere told the press.
The Minister of State for Social Affairs and Social Inclusion of the Ministry of Human Capacities said at his press conference held on Monday in Budapest: their goal is to enable civil society partners seeking to extend a helping hand to develop their services designed to encourage social inclusion and to improve the quality of life, or to launch new services.

He stressed: the Government does not leave families raising children with disabilities or looking after handicapped or disabled relatives on their own in their daily struggles and does not let them be isolated, but provides every assistance for them, and this is why it also supports the services provided by NGOs.

In a cohesive society, we cannot allow that looking after a handicapped family member should become a straight path to impoverishment, he said.