The Multiculture Association was founded in Budapest, on 15th April 2002 in order to provide assistance to the foreigners living in our country, to promote the culture of the national and ethnic minorities, as well as to ensure the rights of the foreigners and help them integrate into the society.
Although our association is rather new, our members have good skills in organizing cultural events, and they are experienced in the problems concerning the national and ethnic minorities, and refugees. Our members include Hungarians as well as refugees, even Hungarians outside the Hungarian border.
Our Constitution (registration number: 9931)
The association’s objectives are as follows:
1. Examination of the social conditions of the national and ethnic minorities living in Hungary.
2. Examination of migration problems, and programs designed to solve them;
3. Protection of the cultural heritage, promoting the culture of the Hungarian national and ethnic minorities as well as the culture of the foreigners living in Hungary. All this is to be presented in the cultural programs organized and supported by the Association.
4. The Association promotes the informative publications and founding forums designed for the Hungarian society regarding the national and ethnic minorities.
5. The Association – together with the appropriate experts – provides consultation for the national and ethnic minorities, and for foreign citizens, as well as for non-Hungarian speaking Hungarian citizens living in Hungary.
6. Promoting culture, independent of borders.
7. All other aspirations that are connected with the above goals.
8. Apart from the programs initiated by the Association, they also strive to introduce the models and methods which have been successfully working abroad, especially in the countries of the European Union.
9. In order to exchange information and help co-operation, the Association develops a system of relations with organizations, government- and other official bodies, public institutions that have similar profile.
10. Together with qualified and authorized individuals, the Association establishes a consulting center which organizes and supports the following free services for the members mentioned in point 1.: legal consultations and legal administration; representation; labor and other economic advise and administration in order to help them integrate in society; administrative support.
11. The Association organizes education programs and courses that increase the participants’ chances in the Hungarian labor market.
12. In order to inform the majority society, the Association creates an information center that provides information on the Internet, on printed and digital data carriers about the national and ethnic minorities living in Hungary, the foreigners living in our country, as well as the Hungarian citizens who are of non-Hungarian nationality, emphasizing the cultural values of these groups of people.
13. The Association organizes information campaigns, courses, and conferences to promote tolerance in the Hungarian society.
14. The Association organizes cultural programs where the Hungarian national and ethnic minorities, the foreigners living in our country, and the multicultural initiatives are given an opportunity to present themselves.
