Investments in kindergartens are underway or have already been completed at twenty-three locations in the Tiszántúli Reformed Church District, said the State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office responsible for church and ethnic relations at the handover of the new Reformed kindergarten and nursery school on Monday in Mándok, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county.
Miklós Soltész emphasized that in the national kindergarten development program launched by the government, the buildings of church-maintained institutions were also renovated, and kindergartens were created as a new investment.
In addition to larger and medium-sized cities such as Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, Szeged and Kisvárda, Mándok also benefited from this program, the only one of the main settlements with less than five thousand inhabitants in the country where a Reformed kindergarten could be built, which clearly proves the local unity, said the state secretary.
The teachings and values conveyed by the churches must and will be strengthened in this age, these investments provide help and tools for this, he explained.
Speaking to the parents, Miklós Soltész said that nowadays they are trying to influence and reshape children with worthless ideologies through the media, which "will last for five, ten or fifty years", but they are already exerting their destructive influence.
If parents are able to work together with nursery, kindergarten and school teachers in raising their children, and raise them in the family with the help of the churches, then it will be possible to resist this effect, said the state secretary.
Attila Tilki, the Fidesz member of parliament of the region, spoke about how, in addition to Mándok, the region of the Upper Tisza will be enriched with this kindergarten, but the most important thing will be what kind of work will take place in this institution.
Károly Fekete, bishop of the Tiszántúli Reformed Church District, preached at the thanksgiving service at the ceremony held in the Reformed church.
The new kindergarten with a floor area of nine hundred square meters and built with nearly half a billion state subsidies can accommodate 65 kindergarteners, and the so-called "mini" nursery part of the building can accommodate 14 children. It was said in the greetings after the church service that in September this year 43 children enrolled in the new kindergarten in the small town of Upper Szabolcs.
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