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Minister for Human Resources Zoltán Balog opened a retrospective exhibition of Hungarian surrealist painter Endre Bálint on Friday at the Hungarian National Gallery (MNG) in Budapest.
The Bird’s Nest Boxing Academy, which will be one of the four major youth sports training centres, has opened its doors under professional leadership of Zsolt Erdei, Minister of State for Sport and Youth Affairs István Simicskó announced at a press conference held jointly with the Hungarian Boxing Federation.
The Government is continuing to fund the development of crèches, and three thousand new crèche places will be created next year, Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész said at the new municipal crèche in Solymár, Pest County. The day care of 40 to 48 children can be provided in the institution established with an investment of HUF 190 million within the framework of the New Széchenyi Plan.
Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész announced today that, compared to 2011, the Government will provide more than twice as much funding for charity organisations as well as raising the number of eligible organisations from three to eight.
It is the Government’s high priority to assist families in home-buying and retaining the homes already in their possession. Due to the measures of the Government, hundreds of thousands of families have been saved from the loss of their homes by the introduction of early repayment schemes and exchange rate limits.
The future tenants of the first 80 houses will be decided upon by a five-member committee following a preliminary background study. The National Asset Management Company regards the social housing estate in Ócsa as a model project.
The refurbishment of five of the twelve studios has been completed at the Old Artists’ Colony in Szentendre, where the office of the Hungarian Public Non-Profit Council of Arts (MANK) has also been moved to.
The inmates of Csillag Prison assembled the engines for hospital beds that were handed over to the Csongrád County local government’s Institute for the Blind by State Secretary for Social, Family and Youth Affairs Miklós Soltész.
The Ministry of Human Resources welcomed with great pleasure the decision to include the traditional embroidery of Hungary's Matyó community and the Hungarian tradition of falconry on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list.
