Next Step Hungary Association

Next Step Hungary Association is a refugee-led NGO in Hungary. Our mission is to engage with and support disadvantaged and vulnerable people — thus particularly but not exclusively third country nationals — through solution-oriented approaches that prioritize empowering people through job market skills, community building, and social inclusion. Next Step offers vocational, technical, and practical job-related training courses in high-demand skills. Programmes organized by Next Step in order to bring Hungarians and foreigners together on a cooperative basis help build the personal and social ties that create social cohesion and promote integration. Next Step also offers workshops, guidance, and targeted activities that help people feel empowered to control their own destiny and claim their rights. The activities of the organization intend to foster the learning and development of adults and children alike. Since the escalation of the Russian−Ukrainian conflict in 2022, the number of Next Step beneficiaries and the need for humanitarian actions have significantly increased, which led to the growth of the organization in terms of size and scope of activities as well. Large quantities of in-kind donations have been distributed among people fleeing Ukraine on a regular basis.