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MOONLIGHT CLUB IN THE SZÉCHENYI
PRIMARY SCHOOL
19
March 2008
Photogallery
 The
acting headmaster of Gróf Széchenyi István Primary School, Lídia
Süli and the Coordinator of the Youth Night Sport Department of
Club 21 – Association for Positive Communication Dezső Kiss
signed a cooperation agreement which declares that the school
joins the Moonlight Programme of the non-governmental
organization. As a result of this on 13 March 2008 a new free and open night sport and recreational club – a
Moonlight Club – was opened to expect children and youth
interested in sports and entertainment every Friday from
7 to 11 p.m.
 The
opening of the sixth Moonlight Club is a wonderful
example of combining forces between state institutions, the
civil sphere and the private sector. The Councillor of Youth and
Sport Affairs of the Municipality of Subotica, Andrija Romić,
the Chairman of the Addiction Prevention Committee of the Local
Government, Lívia Joó Horti, and the manager and owner of the
Fornetti Factory in Subotica, Gábor Kovács all supported the
opening of the new club.
The five existing clubs in Subotica (the sixth operates in Bajša),
which at present accommodate around 300 children, already cover
a large part of the town. However, all that is still not enough,
because the large number of young people gathering and hanging
around in the town, around schools and their sports grounds are
still easy prey for drug dealers.
 Experience suggests that children and youth like spending their
free time at night in Moonlight Clubs, especially those who
can’t afford or don’t want to spend their pocket money on
membership fees in private sport clubs, and are not interested
in professional competitive sports. That is why it is necessary
to involve all primary schools, or at least those in the
outskirts of the town, in the Moonlight Programme, and this is
why
Széchenyi
Primary School joined it too.
The necessary conditions for this are for the most part
fulfilled. In two brief years the Moonlight Programme has given
ample proof of its necessity and enjoys considerably support by
the community. Over fifty youth and adult volunteers help the
work of clubs directly or indirectly. The Teacher Training
Faculty of Subotica participates in the programmes organized by
Moonlight Clubs as a partner, and the private sector also
readily acts as a patron to the programme, in which the Fornetti
Factory of
Subotica
excels in particular. Several – mostly foreign – foundations and
organizations support the programme, including MÉSE (the
Hungarian Association of Midnight Championships), BCIF (Balcan
Community Initiatives Fund), the Jefferson Institute, the Global
Fund for Children from
Washington
and the Hungarian Chance for Stability Public Foundation.
Dezső Kiss
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