Foundation of a new building for a disabled children’s rehabilitation centre is laid in Budapest

A ceremony of laying the foundation of a new five-storied hostel building for boys and girls aged over 18 with impaired vision that have passed a rehabilitation course at the László Batthyány Roman-Catholic Home took place in Budapest, January 16. The project is being implemented at the initiative of and with support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

Established by the Hungarian Catholic Church in 1982, the primary mission of the centre has been to provide support to children with impaired vision, movement and talking abilities, as well as other handicaps. At present, the centre comprises a kindergarten and a primary school. In addition to receiving special education at the centre, children here pass medical treatment through various rehabilitation programs and trainings aimed at improving their movement abilities and individual skills, and master vocational habits. With 2800 m2 total area, the centre was basically repaired in 1994.

The building to be constructed at the initiative of and with support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation will be linked with the existing buildings complex. Total area of a five-storied hostel building designed for 30 beds will be 1385.26 m2. According to the project, the building will have study, rest and sleeping rooms, a kitchen and an elevator.

Before the ceremony of laying foundation, there was a meeting between State Secretary of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Machinery for Foreign Policy Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations, co-chairperson of the Azerbaijan-Hungary Intergovernmental Economic Committee Péter Szijjártó and representative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Ilgar Mustafayev. Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Hungary Vilayet Guliyev and the centre’s nun Anna Fexer were present at the meeting.

Benevolent activity of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the general level of the relations between the two peoples were highly appreciated at the meeting.