More than 600 localities have won altogether ten billion forints (EUR 28.3m) in development funding within the government’s “Hungarian Village” scheme, the government commissioner for modern communities said on Monday.
Small localities and village parishes could apply for a maximum of 30 million forints (EUR 85 thousand) for the development of communal spaces and to hire a community organiser for one year, Alpár Gyopáros told a press conference.
The government recently announced the kick-off of a Hungarian Village Funding Scheme aimed at halting depopulation and improving the living circumstances in rural areas. Although the program certainly addresses an existing problem, it also raises a plethora of red flags. The end of communism left many rural areas at the mercy of domestic migration, aging […]Continue reading
The development projects will create the infrastructure necessary for the local governments to organise community life, Gyopáros said. Community organisers will work with priests and organise lay events in parishes where one priest has to serve several villages, he added.
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