Ministerial commissioner hails meeting of Hungarian Weekend Schools
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The government commissioner for Hungarian communities abroad has hailed the success of Hungarian Weekend Schools, a forum established last year for diaspora Hungarians that operates in parallel with the Hungarian Diaspora Council.
In an interview to Magyar Nemzet on Wednesday, Péter Szilágyi noted that the weekend schools forum held its first meeting last year. The second meeting is taking place on Friday.
Like the government’s Kőrösi Csoma Sándor scheme, which aims to strengthen ties between Hungary and Hungarian communities worldwide, the new programme has helped to “revive” Hungarian diaspora communities, he said. Read more HERE.
“Families are willing to travel hundreds of kilometers to take their children to study at the weekend in [different] schools,”
he said, adding that it was the parents themselves who had taken the initiative before the custom became an official programme.
