Description
The employment rate of women having children in Hungary is the lowest in Europe. There is an increasing demand, but little initiative for part-time jobs and childrens’ (part-time) daily care. While maternity leave is 2-3 years per child women easily become isolated and get handicapped in their professional work and lack advance. Our goal is to re-socialise inner-Budapest mothers on their maternity leave and empower them through improving their skills enabling their better labour-market reintegration. Our ecological, sustainable and family-friendly inner-city communal place and café aims to foster communal initiatives and target group social life. Furthermore we organise trainings, courses and personal consultations for mothers on maternity leave to strengthen their personality, increase their self-confidence and develop in some professional skills. We employ part-time workers mostly of the target group while spreading the family-friendly approach in professional life.
Summary of project results
Hello Mum! The project goal was to establish a family friendly café and community venue in the inner city giving the opportunity for mothers who spend their 2-3 years maternity leave at home to go out, meet others, while having their baby along. It is a spot to visit at any time to breast-feed their child or change the nappy, or to sit in for a chat with a friend over a coffee, with their child playing around them in a safe surrounding, even being the alternative to a playground in cold or rainy weather. In the community area of the café we the organizers provide a range of cultural, educational and competence developing courses for these women, with a potential of child caring in the meantime, so besides having a site for socialising they get empowerment for a better future performance on the labour market. The project sucseeded to spread the family friendly approach in Hungary, while establishing a model for the atypical workplace. Furthermore, the café implements an ecologically sustainable and healthy approach both in its realization, and in its range, for the target group being sensitive for these.
Summary of bilateral results