The Single-Parent Center helps children of single-parent families with school supplies.
As we reported earlier, it will be easier for more than six hundred families to start school, since the parents of elementary school students could apply for school supplies worth tens of thousands of forints.
The first thirty-six packages were handed over to the children on Saturday by Ágnes Hornung, the Secretary of State responsible for families at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, and Anna Nagy, the head of the Single Parent Center. After handing over the school supplies, Ágnes Hornung recalled to MTI:
Since 2010, the government has helped single-parent families with several measures, for example, they are entitled to a higher family allowance, children have an advantage in kindergarten admission, and they are provided with free meals in primary school.
Since last January, the court litigation and enforcement procedures related to the collection and enforcement of alimony have been made easier and simpler, and the legal regulations related to the advance payment of alimony have also become more efficient.
Ágnes Hornung, the Secretary of State responsible for families at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, speaks at the handing over of school supplies to the children of single-parent families at the Single-Parent Center on August 26, 2023.
The Single Parent Center helps the children of single-parent families with school supplies; the first 36 packages were handed over at the event. MTI/Péter Lakatos
The State Secretary highlighted:
The joint program of the One-Parent Center and the State Secretariat for Family Affairs, Kiszenezwez az skozazdés! also aims to make the lives of families easier when school starts with free school supplies packages.
Anna Nagy, head of the Single Parent Center, said that
this year, the center supports more than six hundred families starting school. Almost half of single-parent families live in a difficult financial situation, so it is important to help them during the financially burdensome period of starting school.
According to his information, they help families from first graders to high school graduates, as more than four hundred elementary school students receive packages worth tens of thousands of forints, adjusted to the needs of the age groups, with a school bag, pen holder, stationery, drawing tools, and paints. And two hundred high school students will receive tablets that were used by enumerators during last year's census. Half of the packages are distributed in rural areas, at eleven locations.
Over the past five years, the One-Parent Center has reached more than twenty-eight thousand one-parent families with the approximately seventy different services provided by the two centers. In Hungary, approximately three hundred thousand families are currently missing one parent.
MTI
Front page photo: Ágnes Hornung, Secretary of State responsible for families at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation (b) and Anna Nagy, head of the One-Parent Center (j) at the handover of school supplies to the children of single-parent families at the One-Parent Center on August 26, 2023. The Single Parent Center helps the children of single-parent families with school supplies; the first 36 packages were handed over at the event. MTI/Péter Lakatos
