The new kindergarten, handed over on Monday at noon, can accommodate three groups, i.e. 75 Hungarian children. So far, 52 kindergarten children have taken possession of the high-quality placement and education opportunity. The two-story building with a useful area of ​​489 square meters, built on a plot of almost half a hectare, cost HUF 250 million.


The Szent Gellért Kindergarten was consecrated by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Gyulafehérvár, Gergely Kovács The institution will be maintained by the local municipality.

István Grezsa , the ministerial commissioner also responsible for the Hungarian kindergarten development program in the Carpathian Basin, said at the opening ceremony: the Hungarian state has spent a total of HUF 61 billion on kindergartens outside Hungary's borders in the last five years because it wants every child from a Hungarian or mixed family to have one. he has the opportunity to be brought up in a European-standard Hungarian kindergarten, to get to know Hungarian culture through the world of fairy tales, and to become committed to it.

The ministerial commissioner explained: the task is to keep the 13.5 million Hungarians living in the Carpathian basin in one national community. He added: not at the expense of other peoples living here. "If we can't give birth, let's move in and feel at home (in the Carpathian Basin)," declared István Grezsa.

Transylvania kindergarten handover

Gyimesközéplok, May 31, 2021.
The newly opened Szent Gellért Kindergarten in Gyimesközéplok, Transylvania, on May 31, 2021.
The new kindergarten, built with the support of the Hungarian state, can accommodate three groups, i.e. 75 Hungarian children. The two-story building with a useful area of ​​489 square meters, built on a plot of almost half a hectare, cost HUF 250 million. MTI/Nándor Veres

The Szent Gellért kindergarten in Gyimesközéplok, which has a population of 5,300 and is located on the eastern edge of Székelyföld, is now the second one built with the support of the Hungarian state. 99.3 percent of the inhabitants of the large mountainous settlement extending into the valleys of the streams declared themselves Hungarian in the last Romanian census held ten years ago.

MTI