Bevezető szöveg

Bázel és Gödöllő. Mi köti össze ezt a két várost? Például egy a nők helyzetének javításáért létrehozott együttműködés.

Két női szervezet fogott össze annak érdekében, hogy tapasztalatcserén keresztül segítsék egymás munkáját, ezzel pedig közvetve célcsoportjukat, a nőket. A REGINA Alapítvány és a Fraune_oase közös projektben vállalta, hogy feltérképezi, - ki-ki a saját hazájában - a nőket támogató ellátó rendszert, beleértve női tereket, szociális hálót, jogi hátteret, intézményi keretrendszert, segítő civil szervezeteket. Az eredményeket összehasonlítva és elemezve kívánjuk fejleszteni szolgáltatásainkat.

A honlapon megjelentetett projekteseményeket követve Ön is részese lehet munkánknak, felhasználója a kutatásból, összegző dokumentumokból szerezhető információknak.

Basel and Gödöllő. What connects these two cities? For example a cooperation created to improve the situation of women.

Two women house associations came together with the aim to help each other in their daily work through experience exchange and to help with this indirectly their target group – the women. The REGINA foundation from Gödöllő and the association frauen_oase from Basel have appointed in their common project that they will create a database - each organisation in their home country- which will sum up the available help services for women in both countries. This includes information about women topics, the social network, the legal background, the institutional framework and the helping civil organisations. With the analysis and comparison of these results they hope to improve their service.

In following the current project activities, you can also take part of our work, be a user of our research and provide yourself with all the information in the available documents.

2013. február 14., csütörtök

Study trip to Basel


At the end of January 2013, the team of REGINA (the project manager, 2 gender experts, 1 youth worker) had a five-days study trip in Basel. The aim of the trip was to get to know better some of the supporting organisations, especially those who help to women. Our further aim was to know more about with what kind of background support and in what kind of circimstances they work.

The first stop in the journey was the frauen_oase which is our project partner. The frauen_oase (oasis for women) has been helping to women in predicament for 20 years. Its original aim is to give a hand to dope-fiends, but nowadays it tries to help others as well, such as prostitutes. The house is only opened for women.


The Hungarian prostitute women have appeared for 2 years, recently there are 60 Hungarian women among the clients. Once a week a Hungarian-speaking worker can talk with them. Difficulties, however, that on the other days the frauen_oase workers can not contact with the Hungarian women because in most cases they don’t speak foreign languages.

The clients at fraun_oase can eat and have a shower for free, buy and wash clothes at a low price. They also get flyers with useful information, we have found flyers in Hungarian as well.

The women can get condoms and cleaning materisals for free and once a month the clients can recieve medical attedance. If the frauen_oase’s doctor can not help, the social workers take the indigents on to a specialist.

There is an opportunity to use the Internet and Skype, a computer is always available for the women, where they can also contact with the REGINA Foundation’s co-workers, at the moment once a month. The frequency can be increased on-demand.
The frauen_oase is opened from Monday till Thurthday, mostly on the evening hours.
More information: http://www.frauen-oase.ch

The second time we visitied the MaKly, which is a family center, its name comes from the two bordering districts (Matthaus and Klybeck) where the center is located. In Basel in this two districts live the most foreign immigrants. The visitors in MaKly are mostly foreigners too, but they are open for everybody from the districts, so that the families do not feel themselves alone, they can find companionship and participate in meaningful programs. The organisation has been working for 18 years. There are several similar organisation in Basel, the difference is that they try to collect money for additional activities, such as different kind of trainings, consultancies, handicraft work, common cooking, etc.


Our next visitation was in a center which ensures the creation and operational support of self-help groups, its name is Zentrum Selbsthilfe. As far as we know, there is not any place in Hungary where at the same time that many self-help group’s operation were induced, these number are around 180 currently.
The initiative started 31 years ago. They help for the clients to connect other people in similar situation, then create the self-help group which later can work by itself. Occasionally the facilitators participate in the conversations, give advices, help to implement the activities. The venue of the meetings can be the Zentrum Helbsthile or other places, cafes, restaurants, etc.
For their meetings the groups can rent a room or workshop preferentially in the help center.


Frauenhaus – protected women house, the location of our next visitation.
The house has benn operating for 30 years in Basel, female victims of domestic violence and their children can find here a shelter. The house is suitable to accomodate 10 women, altogether 17 person with the children. 6 consultants work at the organisation, other 3 person (director, secretary, housekeeper) are responsible for running the house, and there are 14 volunteers who are on duty during the nights and weekends.
The house in practice is always full, but it does not mean that they can not help for indigent women. First of all, there are many other support organisation, on the other hand almost in every cases they find a place in a far protected house for the refugees. The women usually stay for a short period in the house (the last year on average 37 days). During this time they get efficient help from the social protection system in terms of housing, job opportunity, children’s placement, etc.
More information: http://www.frauenhaus-basel.ch/ 

ALIENA – private foundation for helping for street prostitutes. This was our last meeting in Basel.

The house of ALIENA is located in the district where the street prostitues work, the organisation has benn working for 10 years. 2 people have part time jobs at the foundation and there are volunteers as well. Their services include consultancy (legal, medical), attendance to a doctor, financial assistance, free meal once a week. They are opened during weekdays, but in urgent cases they available beside of the opening hours.
More information: http://aliena.ch/

During our journey we get an insight into the everyday life of the organisations, their financial background, professional work, and the social network which supports them, which was very useful for our work in Hungary.
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