Nemzetközi Gyermekmentő Szolgálat Magyar Egyesület
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Mission Statement
The statutes and articles postulate the priority of giving financial, social and health-related support and subsistence to children in need, irrespectively of national, political or religious affiliation. Over the years ICSS has been established as one of the most important non-government welfare organisations in Hungary. The scope of its work is extremely versatile: Our main programmes are: the following: 1.Healthcare Programme 2. Foster-Parent Programme 3. Codification Programme 4. Holiday Programme 5. Educational and Post-Graduate Programme 6. Relief Shipments 7. Co-operation with and Supoort of Other Organisations 8. Events 9. Programmes for Information and Advice 10. Film, Television and Photo Documentation 11. Collection of Contemporary Fine Arts
About This Cause
1. Healthcare Programme ICSS covers the costs of remedies, medicines and medical aid and meets the needs of Hungarian and foreign children for their examination and medical care as well as for their hospital care or operations. Starting in September 1995 the ICSS has operated its own dental ambulance-bus in Hungary and in the neighbouring countries. This mobile dental practice is completely equipped including an X-ray apparatus; it is self-supported and independent-pendent from localities. The bus is employed for dental examinations and treat-treatments of children and juveniles to secure dental basic care. The International Children's Safety Service opened its free specialist outpatient surgery for children in need in September 2002. At present we offer paediatrical and child neurological specialist's consultation, special therapy for hyperactive and for children having behaviour problems. Depending on our financial situation we would like to enchance this kind of activity and provide further education and professional supervision for the team. If necessary, we can also complement the children's development programme or therapy with therapeutic riding in our Therapeutic Riding Centre in Fót. The therapeutic riding activity of ICSS is an integral part of the health care programme. In our Therapeutic Riding Centre in Fót, our experts have held therapeutic riding development activities for disabled children since 2001. We are operating an ICSS mobile gynecological surgery since 2012, where our doctors carry out medical consultations and screenings. 2. Foster-Parent Programme ICSS in a self-financed pilot program supports Hungarian children from state-owned orphanages in rural areas who are now raised by foster-parents. 3. Codification Programme ICSS has published a collection of international legislation and guiding documents dealing with child protection during the period prior to the creating of the child welfare law. Between 1992 and 1994 together with the Prime Minister's office we have been creating and running a Child-, Youth- and Family-Law Codification and Deregulation Committee which in co-operation with the Ministry of Welfare has developed a child protection law, approved by Parliament in 1997. We have suggested and together with the Ministry of Law we have developed a modification of the Penal Code concerning the early jailing of youth, our modification was accepted by the Parliament. We have approached the appointed responsible by Parliament on the matters of citizens rights, asking for commenting on whether the fact that the national highway codes did not include the issue of compulsory child seats, would not harm the citizens rights of children, by including experts in the investigation. The responsible body appointed by Parliament has agreed on the suggestion and has accepted it. We have initialised the modification of the child welfare and media law and we have participated in the development of the modification. 4. Holiday Programme ICSS ensures the opportunity of organised holidays for institutionalised or otherwise disadvantaged children. 5. Educational and Post-Graduate Programme ICSS offers training-courses for foster parents. It also furthers the post-graduate training of foreign doctors, paediatricians, therapeutic pedagogues, laboratory technicians, and staff-members of child-care institutions. ICSS supports the education and intellectual development of children in state-care or of other disadvantaged children. Through our application programme we help the maintaining of talents of children in need, by providing scholarships and support for educational equipment. Through our Riding for the Disabled programme we organise training courses for instructors with theoretical and practical training. We realized at the Therapeutic Riding and Educational Center in Fót - with the consent of our sponsors - the experimental project Liveable Future Park. Under the project the utilizing of the renewable energy sources, an innovative energy- and research island were created. The Liveable Future Park is used by university researchers and students to measure the wind power, to study the solar energy, also to analyze the effects of a complex network of decentralized energy generating system. The project, at the same time partly provides the energy supply of the Therapeutic Riding and Educational Center of the International Children's Safety Service. 6. Relief Shipments ICSS takes relief shipments mostly to Romania and to the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, but has also carried out relief actions in Bangladesh, Russia, and Ukraine. It also gives long-term support to various foreign - mostly Rumanian - institutions. In 2010-2011 we provided significant help and support for families affected by the flood in Northern Hungary and by the toxic sludge catastrophe. 7. Co-operation with and Support of Other Organisations Employing the precise Central-Eastern European knowledge of its members, ICSS frequently assisted other relief organisations. Hence e.g. it took part in preparing the UNICEF and UNESCO programmes for Rumania and established the proper contacts and conditions for many Western European relief convoys. ICSS helped in the planning of reconstructing or reorganising hospitals and children's homes and secured the logistic background. One of the most ambitious projects was the reconstruction of an orphanage at Sinmartin/ Rumania in 2003: this co-operation with Austrian, German, Rumanian and Swedish organisations runs up to costs of DM2 Million of which half will be paid for ICSS. We established and equiped 7 computer clubs in Hungary and Romania. The Hungarian Riding for the Disabled Federation was also established with our contribution. 8. Events ICSS organizes events for Christmas-time, Children's Day, Mother's Day, etc. to entertain children who in case of indigence are guests of ICSS. Each year several concerts and other events at the Hungarian State Opera are organised for the children's benefit. On the International Children’s Day we fill the Upper House Chamber of the Parliament with children each year. We organise the National Assembly of Children and Youth in cooperation with the Hungarian Parliament. At the event children can interpellate the ministers and state secretaries. We also organise the Christmas for Children together with the Parliament where 800 children from underprivileged background are invited from the whole country in the House of Parliament. They are entertained with the show of famous stars, the stories of well-known sportsmen, interactive games and quizzes. After the programs they leave the Parliament building carrying backpacks loaded with presents. 9. Programmes for Information and Advice ICSS regularly gives information and advice to children, youths and children's institutions about legal, medical and other issues concerning children. A publication-series deals with legal questions, self-organisation and planning of life, drugs, smoking, and sexual education; it was started in 1995 and will be continued with publications on other child-related topics. ICSS organized from 1998 nine international conferences on the “Effects of the Media on the Children and Young people”. The Safer Internet Programme was developed by the European Commission (EC) in 1999, Since 2009 ICSS serves as Hungary’s national awareness centre in addition to acting as the consortium’s coordinator. ICSS aims to promote safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, particularly for children as part of a coherent approach by the European Union. In order to promote safer use of the Internet we organise tutorials/trainings, we start campaigns and arrange conferences (www.saferinternet.hu). As of the Spring of 2012 we cooperate with Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, we organise media conferences and also publish a book series together. 10. Film, Television and Photo Documentation The everyday life of socially disadvantaged children as well as the problems, which arise in child welfare on the part of hospitals, schools and other institutions for children are documented in a tv-serie every year. 11. Collection of Contemporary Fine Arts The International Children’s Safety Service’s Collection of Contemporary Fine Arts comprises works of art donated by recognized Hungarian artists, and due to the continuous donations, it's steadily growing. The works of art gives an authentic cross-section of the contemporary art. It is our long-term goal to use the funds raised by selling the whole Collection or its pieces for supporting disadvantaged children.