Támop project

Our program - TÁMOP 2.4.3.D.2-13/1-2013-0065

„Open Gates – Help for the disadvantaged section of society”

The project’s aim, target groups

The project’s main goal is to ensure innovative changes for the disadvantaged population who living in the Debrecen subregion. In addition we undertake 6 persons’s training in charity shop operator profession. Then we will employ 14 person during the whole project period in the specified position. The project’s effect will be felt in the Debrecen subregion among the disadvantaged population.

We want to reach innovative changes with this project eg.: reduce the unemployment, eliminate or improve social and human problems, promote the location on the labor market and implementation of all services which had been unavailable or hadn’t been free for the poorer sections of society.

Long –term goals: Let the shop to be a complex opportunity for population in the Debrecen subregion, which help their standard of living, change their thinking into a more positive direction, transfer employment’s competencies… etc.

The valueables, clothes, devices, toys and every items what can be found in the shop are available for even minorities and diasadvantaged people on discount price or free of charge. We would like to reach this as follows: if a man walks into the shop and buy an item but he don’t bring it home, then a label gets on the item named „seized”. With these he redound that other families who can’t buy these things even at the lowest price can get the seized items for free.

Project presentation

The main activities of the project:

Open the charity shop, 6 person’s training in charity shop operator profession, organize trainings for the employed people, organize charitable events, social and economic services for disadvantaged people who live in Debrecen subregion.

Additional goals: search for cooperative partners and let them join the initiation so they facilitate the charity shop’s promotion and continuous improvement in the Northern Plains region so we can reach more people and let them know what opportunities they have and how they can use our services eg.: counseling, legal counseling, crime prevention, drug prevention, job searching counsel. Expected co-operating partners: counsils in the Northern Plains region, non-governmental organizations, firms and enterprises who can help the shop’s operation with donation or other financial or material things. So we would be able to develop a donation network.

Project schedule:

Preparatory period – recruitment – We try to choose from the widest circle those people considering their social and family background who need the training and the employment the best. Social and statistical data contained in the premilinary claim survey and the feasibility study are great help for this

Next 6 people will be selected who are involved in the program and in the first month they attend in a training which aim is to build a team, a cohesive community who will learn together and then work in the charity shop. Modules in the training: development of social skills, personality development, preparation for employment.

Next the education begins in the second month when they can learn the store management, fundraising, marketing, valuation techniques and the related items. These are essential to the proper operation of the charity shop through five months.

After the training apprenticeship training period follows when they can practise and learn in real life situations all the theory mastered during training.

During the entire duration of the project we provide an adequate level of propaganda especially the opening ceremony when beyond the target group we would like to invite cooperative and prospective partners who can help the promotion of the project and the charity shop and we can presents our ideas in detail for them. In addition we would like to provide the continuous appearance of local media eg.: TV, radio and newspaper ads. So the people can be notified of the new information during the whole project. Following the successful implementation of the project in the framework of the final conference we will have an evaluation report and for the further maintain we will develop another collaborations.

Cooperative partners

National and Minority Government of Debrecen

National and Minority Government of Debrecen in the preparatory phase supplies the Cooperative with professional advice and plays a vital role in recruitment to the end of the maintenance period and therefore the cooperation is the subject of further discussion. Cultural Department of the Mayor’s Office in Debrecen as a cooperative partner from the beginnig of the project to the start of the employment provides us the premises free of charge during the project implementation and maintenance periods.

Partners Hungary Foundation

The Foundation as a cooperative partner was a great help to us in the preparatory phase since we got a lot of good advice on developing the project, and further we can expect them to organize the donations. The KALÉP 2000 Bt. was involved in the work of the real estate development and it takes over any forwarding tasks related to donations if it will be necessary and the co-op would have no financial and human resources anymore.

Romaversitas

The Romaversitas is a scholarship which is for young roma people in higher education. Romaversitas Foundation deals with support of university and college students. They provide not only scholarship and a variety of services but give place to a vibrant social life. They are the main coordinator organization of the ROMED program of the European Union in Hungary.

Our cooperative performs the task of the Hajdu-Bihar county representation of the ROMED program.

Wáli István Gypsy Reformed College

The College strongly supports and mentor the Roma youth in the higher education. Our cooperative as professional partner assists the objectives of the College.

The effects of the implementation of the project

effects of social, economic, urban and regional environment, employment

The cooperative is not supports the help of disadvantaged people's employment and the improvement of their social conditions only but provides the socail and cultural needs of the members’ relatives too. In addition both the employees and the families with a little budget who buy new and used items appropriate for their needs in the charity shop can obtain the selected products under the prevailing market price. It's basically a stop-gap service that creates a win-win situation. It serves the needs of the new times, the growing needs of social responsibility and the social sensitivity. We consider the local communities' sustainability a value against the global effects of economic market and our activites support this. We operate a common interest activities, which makes secure livelihoods, good quality individual, family and community life possible for the members and employees too.

The cooperative’s project will contribute to local development, the cohesive community and social functioning, social and economic stabilization, the implementation of diverse employment, as well as part of the fight against poverty. Our cooperative has been active part of the social policy because it provides work according to given country values. We follow the logic of community cooperation, trust, partnership, secure employment and employment. We can offer a real alternative for the sustainable social operation, solidarity, appreciation of the work and the people, and environmental sustainability, fight against poverty, appearance against an exclusion.

Sustainability

Function, vocational and financial sustainability

Our vision is that the implemented development in this project is the foundation of structure and a long-term operation. An innovation that has been substantiated and developed before its starting, that what kind of structure and mode of operation (social cooperatives, stop-gap market services) can be maintained in the results. The results of the project is retained even after the termination of assistance because we can finance employment and the improvements from our revenue from a wide range of market activities (see. business plan).

Many people donate to our charity shop to achieve our objectives. Promoting sustainability fact that not only one type of product and product group is for sale, but also targeting a wider customer base we sell everything which may be required in a household. We plan conducting internal and external trainings for our employees after completion of the project.