Jai Bhim Network

Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour
Department of Social and Civil Relations

Reference number: 10145-3/2009

Jai Bhim Network
Pécs
Szabadság u. 21.
7623

Subject: Decision on Registration

DECISION

I have examined the request for reporting voluntary activities in the public interest submitted by the Jai Bhim Network on the paper referenced 10145-0/2009. Based on the presented documents I have taken the Jai Bhim network in the register of volunteers under the number 01088 according to § 12 (2) of the Act LXXXVIII of 2005 on voluntary activities in the public interest with the following content of data:

1. Host organization:

a) name: Jai Bhim Network

b) seat: 7623 Pécs, Szabadság u. 21.

c) Tax number: 18329618-1-02

d) Filing registration number of budgetary organization:

e) Type: ecclesiastical legal entity

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Dalit Buddhists meet Gypsies in Hugary

We are beginning the Dalit Buddhist volunteer program in East-European Roma communities in september 2009.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Here you are the whole project as it was planned two years ago:

A Roma and Dalit joint project IN HUNGARY

Brief outline of the proposal

1. Bringing 10 activists from Dalit communities in India to Hungary for one year to help train Roma/Gypsy activists

2. Running workshops and training camps for Roma/Gypsy activists.

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We have got amiable guests during July from Wales. Tina and Annamarie spent a whole month in our place. They came in order to get acquainted with the people in Sajokaza, present the Romas’ lives in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, in addition current situation throughout Hungary all/whole Hungary. First of all the two ladies took photos, documenting the Hungarian Gypsies’. They become popular very soon among the Romas because photographs got printed, and handed over to the people in the snapshots. They were taken of families, grandchildren, water carriers, the favourite horse, moreover, a tattoo had to be immortalized.

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This will be the park at the Gipsy settlement. Even Daróczi Ági is on the point of planting there. There are plenty of children - there will be a playground as well. The authorities, the power used to dream landfill there for industrial waste, post-industrial garbage and dangerous junk. They did it. Aftermath it seemed to be a good idea if it would do as a Gipsy settlement. The mine and the government had created one of the country’s largest slums here on top of waste material. The authorities, the power liked it. Newer and newer families have been to move there because they haven’t got work, they haven’t got incomes. They have no housing benefit from the government. The flowers began to bloom just here.

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Our Buddhist church and our school celebreted The Buddha’s birrthday on 8 May 2009.

Dr. Ambedkar High School’s and the guest school’s students got to know each other in a friendly football match in the morning. Our friends honoured the program with their attendance from India, Budapest and Miskolc. Puzsar, the famous top goal scorer was the star of football matches. Ashwin Jangam, our Indian friend played football for the first time on this day. Julien Ingram represented the American sport-life ont he field of Sajokaza. Don Bosco School’s team in Kazincbarcika won the match.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. The celebration continued on yard of the Cultural Centre int he village with dance and music programs, and at noon we enjoyed cauldron goulash, special Hungarian cuisine. There was a festive and creature moods despite the heat. Finally spectators occupied the stage.

In the evening we talked about Buddhism, humanity, empathy, respect for each other and the inner harmony with The Gate of Dharma Buddhist College’s teachers and students. We listened to the scientific lectures from Ruzsa Ferenc, the chief director of The Gate of Dharma Buddhist College and from Körtvélyesi Tibor, who is a Sanskrit language teacher. The day ended with meditation, by Száraz Róbert.