After a two-year hiatus, the Sándor Kőrösi Csoma Program, which helps Hungarian communities in the diaspora, is relaunching, announced the deputy state secretary responsible for national policy.
Péter Szilágyi explained that in 2022-2023, the government will send one hundred scholarship holders - scouts, folk dancers, language teachers, event organizers - to the large Hungarian communities all over the world to help with community-building work.
You can apply for the program until July 15, he added.
The deputy state secretary also reported that on Friday he attended the general assembly of the Association of Hungarian Organizations in Germany, which includes 39 Hungarian organizations in Germany, where he also emphasized that joint construction with Hungarians living in the diaspora is ongoing.
He reminded that the purpose of the association is to bring together the Hungarian organizations and communities in Germany to coordinate their work for the maintenance of the Hungarian language and culture, and to reach out to the estimated 300,000 Hungarians living in Germany.
In his speech, Péter Szilágyi said, he also thanked the Hungarians living abroad in the diaspora that "on April 3, they clearly stood up for thinking in the nation and continuing the nation-building work started in 2010".
He emphasized that the government will continue the national political construction started in 2010.
The deputy state secretary responsible for national policy also touched on the fact that, in cooperation with the Rákóczi Association, they are expecting a thousand young Hungarians from the diaspora to come to Sátoraljaújhely this year for the diaspora camp program, where they can meet their counterparts from the motherland and the Carpathian Basin.
He underlined that during the year, in cooperation with the Hungarian Scout Association Abroad, diaspora school camps are organized in more than a dozen places on every continent of the world with the involvement of local scout organizations, where young Hungarians are also welcome.
In addition, Péter Szilágyi drew attention to the fact that the central building of the only Hungarian scout park in Western Europe will be handed over in September, which can be completed with the support of the State Secretariat for National Policy.
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