For teachers, educational professionals, parents
18 years in the fight for human rights
The Power of Humanity was founded in 2006 by a couple of doctors from Pécs, giving enthusiastic young people the opportunity to promote the ideals of human rights and solidarity in an organised setting. The founders’ aim was to strengthen social inclusion by supporting oppressed and discriminated groups and sensitising the majority society.
The Foundation started working in 2010 in Gyárváros, a segregated eastern district of Pécs. After the initial school-based leisure programmes, the first one was the Menedék youth club, followed by the Élmény Tár Tanoda in spring 2013. From 2020 onwards, the Élmény Tár will continue to operate as a strategic partner but as an independent organisation within the framework of the Élménylelő Ifjúsági Egyesület.
Our mission is to play our part in creating a democratic society for all.
Human rights education
The Foundation launched its first human rights education programmes in 2007, working with local primary and secondary schools. Our activities are characterised by a developmental approach, a belief in learning and change, and a significantly expanded toolbox of online games and board games in the spirit of gamification.
As a rural NGO, we are based on the principle of think global, act local: we focus on innovation, adaptability and multiplication in our education/learning programmes.
Civil development
It was a milestone in the life of our Foundation when, with the support of the Open Society Foundations, it launched the Growing Civil Communities programme in 2017, as part of the Regional Community Centres programme. It was a complex development programme aimed at supporting civil society. In three years, around 300 million HUF of funding was made available to communities in South Transdanubia, and our Foundation entered a new organisational phase.
From 2020, we will consciously seek to make independent, international forms of support available to civil society in Hungary.
