Vidéken Jó! Foundation
Vidéken Jó! Alapítvány - “Go Rural!” Foundation founded in December 2017. President of the Foundation is József Bozsits. As an informal group and in cooperation with other NGOs we work since many years with youth (youth projects, community development work). The Foundation has no paid workers yet. Our board members are experienced in non formal education methods, facilitation, community development, photography, permacultural gardening, project management, financial assistant.
The office and the center of the Foundation is located in Szaporca at Szaporcai Cifraház. Szaporca is a small village with around 180 inhabitants close to the Croatian border in South-Hungary.
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Szaporca is a part of Ormánság region, one of the most disadvantaged and poor region of Hungary with untouched natural sources. Szaporcai Cifraház is a more than 100 year old building, the building is the base of the daily work and workshops, presentations, youth exchange, EVS, training projects, school visits, etc.
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Goals of the Foundation are:
- to preserve local values, keep traditions and cultural heritage
- promote rural and eco friendly lifestyle for young generations
- discover and present the natural, built, social, agricultural, gastronomical, cultural values of the rural area especially in Szaporca village and in Ormánság region
- offer opportunities for the local young people to meet people from different countries
- highlight the importance of keep the traditions, local values among young people
- promote gardening as traditional way of getting food
- recycling of trash, renovation of old furnitures
- offer workshops for children
- creative workshops for people all age
- promote equality, tolerance to each other
- cooperation with the local stakeholders for development
- support old people living in poor conditions in the villages
- organize cultural and community building projects
- organize Erasmus + projects
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We offer environmental education, recycling workshop for schools, and organize creative workshops in our center too. In the last years we focused on traditional way of food making, so we used to make for example real bread in the outside brick oven which is in the garden of the center.
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During the everyday work we focus on local values. We collect receipts, photos, stories, seeds of traditional plants from the local inhabitants. We also renovate the old furnitures and use the traditional building methods and materials. We also taking photos about the buildings, motives.
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We organize exhibitions, art workshops and host different groups from universities too who are interested for our works. We teach people how to make sourdough bread and other traditional food and bake it in the oven. We prepare exhibitions and interactive program on the BÅ‘köz Festival organized in the BÅ‘köz area (included Szaporca too) in each August. We also grow vegetables on the permacultural way and prepared a herb garden for having fresh spices.
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Our goal also to renovate the Szaporcai Cifraház using the traditional building methods, and keep the old structure, motives, front decoration, furnitures of the building. Realize this plan, we applied for grant, so in 2021-2022 we will renovate the Szaporcai Cifraház to have more comfortable environment for the projects