The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) won a 1,000-euro prize for their Disability Rights Programme. The programme seeks to change the exclusionary public policy exercised with regard to the intellectually disabled in Hungary.
?The struggle for political and social rights of these about 100,000 citizens is becoming broader and more intensified, and those impacted are becoming increasingly more active. This we find excellent and wish it staying power,? the SozialMarie organisers said.
The You Have a Place Foundation was also awarded a 1,000-euro prize for a project entitled ?Creation-oriented social and integrational model program at the Hetes-settlement of Ózd?. The initiative of the writer and film director Kriszta Bódis, the project involves the organisation of social and integrational activities around creative work.
SozialMarie organisers said the project had ?mobilised local energy? and allowed residents of the ?ghettoised? community of Ózd to ?rediscover the belief of change through their own acts?.
?This diversity of creative social work impressed us and we would like to contribute with SozialMarie to its sustainability?
?The aim of SozialMarie is to make innovative social ideas known to a broad public and to support networking between socially innovative projects. Award winning projects are to inspire imitation and to incite further development of their ideas,? the organisers say.
