BOCS FOUNDATION

Profile:
Founded by private individuals in 1994, the foundation was officially registered only in 1994, although its mission - according to the Environmental Protection Encyclopedia - started already in 1975. The goals of the foundation are to spread initiatives for raising public awareness for a sustainable ecological development, environmental preservation and nature protection, work towards peace, solidarity, international development cooperation, women rights and their education, child, and the protection of further generations.

Activities:
The foundation holds trainings, and gives lectures in environmental protection, peace movements, and third-world development. Its webpage serves as a database and archive in several fields, ever since its 1995 start. The organisation propagates by email, translation, and periodicals, with the help of young volunteers at youth programs, festivals and camps. Helps global education and peace campaign in schools and churches both nationally and internationally. On an international level, its major project since 1977 is the financing of ESP (Education Sponsorship Programme) school network in the state of Gujarat in India from Hungarian donations. In 2004, over 35 thousand poor children have studied in a hundred schools.

Region:
Hungary, India, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Palestine

Number of staff: 2

Volunteers: one hundred

Contact:
Simonyi Gyula president
e-mail: development@bocs.hu
H-8003 Székesfehérvár, Pf.7.;
T.: 06 22 501844, F.: 06 22 501843
www.bocs.hu