Policy area: employment

Short description: Szatyor is a social organization promoting sustainable production, delivery and consumption of food. The three main aims of this organization are (1) concern for one’s own health or the health of family members; (2) concern for environmental impact; and (3) concern for the social dimensions of how food is produced, delivered and consumed.

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Policy area: civic engagement

Short description: MigSzol Pécs was created in response to the plight of the growing number of migrants passing through the city. Most had been registered as asylum-seekers and had received notice that they should report to a refugee camp within a short period of time. 

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Policy area: housing

Short description: The Shelter Foundation is one of the largest and oldest organisations in Hungary dealing with homelessness and providing support to people experiencing difficulties in finding short-term or long-term housing solutions. 

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Policy area: health

Short description: The Awakenings Foundation is a single civic group which combines practical support for those suffering from a range of mental health conditions, combined with an explicit agenda to change public and professional views of mental illness. 

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Policy area: education

Short description: (MUTTI) is a pedagogical program that teaches students about social solidarity through teaching pedagogical differentiation and sensitising students about Roma children, the two most important elements which are rather missing from public education system in Hungary.

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Policy area: civic engagement

Short description: Foodbank Netherlands helps poor people/families by supplying them temporarily with food packages. Foodbanks Netherlands is an association of 160 local foodbanks and 8 distribution centres. 

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Policy area: housing

Short description: Timon is a large care- and welfare organisation religion-inspired for children and youth in which care professionals and volunteers work together to offer help to young people, most specifically in all kinds of housing initiatives.

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Policy area: employment

Short description: Women Inc. is founded in 2005 at the initiative of the women’s movement within the Dutch social democratic party (De Rooie Vrouwen) and is aimed at improving the chances for women in the Netherlands. 

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Policy area: civic engagement

Short description: DAC is a religiously inspired organisation that helps people in debt, or at risk of becoming in debt, by learning them basic skills in financial administration, and by helping them getting access to welfare benefits and other resources to deal with financial strains. 

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Policy area: education

Short description: This nationwide organisation helps (functionally) illiterate people to read and write since 2004. Although the organisation aims to mainly reach ethnic Dutch women, most end-users have a migrant background. 

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