The three of us left with the ambulance and an escort car on Friday afternoon to a village called Palanca at the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, which is about 1000 km from Eger.

We spent the night in Oradea due to a flat tire, which was repaired next morning.  After that we drove through the beautiful landscapes of Transylvania, crossing through the Békás Strait to find accommodation in Târgu Frumos.

The project "Wonder Castle  for Refugees" of the Hidden Treasures Down Association has come to an end, but they continue to help and develop the children of Ukrainian refugee families in Nyíregyháza. At the beginning of November, a family day was held, which was also reported in the local media.

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A two-day “Future Planning Workshop” brought together members of the CSOs participating in the Civil Map project. The project aims to develop the advocacy capacity of civil society organisations in North-East Hungary and equip community leaders with the knowledge and methods to effectively organise local people around local public issues. At the workshop, the participating organisations learned about the process of community advocacy with the help of the Civil College Foundation.

The Carpathian Emergency Response Fund for Ukrainians - Supporting the integration of Roma refugees in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Hajdú-Bihar counties - sub-fund supports the National Association of Roma Women of the XXIst Century. The Help Yourself... project, as the name suggests, aims to help the social inclusion of Ukrainian families of Roma origin settled in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county through mentoring.

The Carpathian Foundation's Carpathian Equal Opportunities Scholarship Programme's grantee for the academic year 2022/2023 is Zoltán Szűrös, a student of the University of Debrecen, majoring in commerce and marketing, who will spend his internship at the Martfű Town Planning Association for 10 hours per week between October 2022 and June 2023.

Within the framework of the Early Years Matter Program, we participated in a two-day training and best practice visit with representatives of NGOs working in early childhood education and care (ECEC) from Northern Hungary in Eger, Hungary, on 10-11 October 2022.

We are proud to present our online brochure with 12 best practices from 12 civil society organizations working in the Carpathian region, including the ones that have won our Carpathian Social Innovation Award 2022.

At the beginning of October, our sister foundation Carpathian Foundation-Slovakia organized a three-day best practice visit - for early childhood professionals from Slovakian NGOs -to visit Hungarian associations working in the same field. On the first day, they visited IndaHouse Hungary Association in Fügöd, one of the association's sites, where they met local professionals and learned about their work.