The Single Parent Center in Buda opened on the Hungarian Jacobin Square on the World Day of Single Parent Families, Monday.
At the ceremony, President-elect Katalin Novák He said: half a million children live in single-parent families in Hungary, they are primarily thought of when support for single-parent families is considered to be of utmost importance. Among the measures taken, he mentioned more than doubling the minimum for orphan care and the fact that single-parent families can also use the home building program, as well as the refund of personal income tax. The Hungarian One-Parent Center is unique, there is nothing like it anywhere else in the world, so they "visit the miracle", emphasized the elected head of state.
He explained that they can rely on the civil helpers of the Single Parent Center run by Anna Nagy. The newly opened Budai is the second institution of the center after the Üllői úti in Pest. Single-parent families can receive advice on how to get subsidies, but they can also ask for help in finding a job or when trying to navigate the legal maze. The Pest center works very well, offers many programs, and is popular with families. This activity will be expanded with the establishment of the center in Buda, he said.
Katalin Novák thanked everyone who participated in the initiative and the implementation of the center, emphasizing that the building was completed on time. He emphasized: this initiative also exemplifies the need for dream builders and not dream destroyers. "Hungarian families will be able to count on me as president of the republic, including single-parent families," he declared.
Balázs Fürjes, the State Secretary responsible for the development of Budapest and the capital city agglomeration at the Prime Minister's Office, the candidate for the government party representative in the Budapest electoral district number 3, highlighted: the plan to establish the center in Buda was born last spring, Katalin Novák embraced it as the minister responsible for families, and the mountain municipality also supported it. In the center in Buda, which has just been handed over, an event hall, a playhouse, and a café have been created on more than two hundred square meters, he said. He mentioned that this week the center will also start the volunteer assistance work, with which they provide playhouses and child care for families with young children from Ukraine and Subcarpathians fleeing to Hungary.
Anna Nagy put it this way: raising a child is a miracle. More than half of single-parent families are poor, so there are no resources for, for example, special lessons, sometimes even ten lessons, he pointed out. He called government measures, such as the new alimony law, important. This provides targeted support to those families who need it the most, said the head of the Single Parent Center.
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Cover image: The building of the Buda Single Parent Center on the day of the inauguration, March 21, 2022. MTI/Zoltán Máthé
