This summer, the Single Parent Center organized vacations for almost 2,700 single-parent children and families from its own resources and donations from supporters, the organization announced.
According to the announcement, the Single Parent Center, which has been operating since 2018, organized a day camp in Budapest, where 150 children were provided with childcare and exciting programs for a nominal fee for six weeks.
In addition, 1,500 single-parent families were able to vacation at several points on the Balaton shore - also for a symbolic amount. On weekends, a thousand families were hosted in Zánká as part of the Family Elizabeth Camps program series, and the center was able to register a hundred children raised in single-parent families for the week-long overnight Elizabeth Camp, they added.
Music-loving and music-learning single-parent children between the ages of 8 and 15 took part in a music camp in Alsómocsolád, Baranya County, thanks to the Music Magic program, led by the Ferenc Liszt Prize-winning pianist Andrea Várnagy.
For the first time this year, the Single Parent Center appeared at several festivals: in Kapolcs, at the Bondoró Festival and in the Valley of the Arts, as well as at the Ördögkatlan Festival, they added.
They also mentioned that the organization also helps with the start of school, and twenty one-parent families from Budapest and rural areas receive HUF 15,000 support each.
The Single Parent Center in Budapest wants to provide practical help and community to the more than 300,000 families that are missing one parent. In the past more than three years, the center reached about 26,000 single-parent families with more than 70 types of services, and tens of thousands vacationed in their camps, the announcement reads.
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