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Simon Detti takes over the regional leadership of Bátor Tábor after 26 years of experience in advertising agencies and on the client side. Until December, she will be working alongside CEO Tamás Knecht until December.
The new leader previously worked as a consultant, marketing director, strategic planner, and client relations director. For the past nine years, she was responsible for the business results and operational efficiency of the DDB Advertising Agency. She managed brands such as McDonald’s, Magyar Telekom, Auchan, and Törley. In addition to his business career, she was a member of the Ronald McDonald Foundation’s board for three years.
‘Although I loved agency life and am particularly proud of the many local and international successes we achieved with DDB, it was never a question for me that I wanted to join the cause represented by Bátor Tábor and its dedicated team. As one of the most professionally run foundations in Hungary, we use therapeutical recreation to help children and families struggling with serious and chronic illnesses—there’s nothing more inspiring or uplifting that I can imagine. As a parent, I also believe this sets a good example for my pre-teen son.’
‘Visiting the camp and seeing the happy children and the super-enthusiastic volunteers was a source of energy for me. My favorite moment was with a little girl on the first day of camp, standing next to me at the evening camp dance. Since I didn’t know the choreography, she said, “I see you’re new, come, I’ll show you!” She was right: I am new, and now I’m learning.'”
For the second time we have produced our Sustainability Report, the result of a collaboration between our Foundation and Planet Fanatics’ Network Ltd. Our aim is to provide an overview of our sustainability goals and achievements to date. The Bátor Tábor Foundation remains committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2030.
We have been working for 23 years to create social value on a non-profit basis. Every year, our programs help more and more children and families who are struggling with serious or chronic illness. In recent years, we have developed new programs, including camps, schools, hospitals and online spaces to support children with illness and their communities. We believe that sustainability goes hand in hand with value creation.
As a leading organisation in Hungarian NGO sector, we focus not only on social sustainability but also on reducing our environmental impact. That is why we committed to protecting the environment in our first Sustainability Report. Climate protection is a key focus of our environmental objectives adopted in 2022: we have set ourselves the ambitious goal of making Bátor Tábor Foundation carbon neutral by 2030.
To this end, we have committed ourselves
We are committed to further reducing our carbon emissions,
To achieve this goal, we will reduce our carbon footprint by 2030,
increasing the energy efficiency of our properties,
improve the operation of our vehicle fleet
Our positive impact on environmental sustainability is already visible in the short term: compared to 2019, we have managed to halve the organisation’s GHG emissions from nearly 40 tonnes CO2e to 18 tonnes CO2e. Meanwhile, our programs – with the new programstructure – reach twice as many children, parents, siblings and classmates as in 2019.
The Foundation’s activities contribute to several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We are a key contributor to the Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3) and Reducing Inequalities (SDG 10) goals, both improving the mental wellbeing of society and contributing to reducing inequalities. We will promote a culture of giving and volunteering, which will foster social solidarity and redistribution of wealth in our country – without which there is no equality of opportunity.
To achieve the sustainability goals we have set ourselves
In 2023, the children’s shelters and the main building of the camp will be equipped with a new solar system,
and the solar panels in the programme building and the volunteer shelters have been renovated,
From 2022, we will also use our own renewable energy production at our campsite in Hatvan, which covered the energy needs of our Budapest office in 2023,
We are also continuously reviewing our activities to take further steps to make our operations more sustainable.
If you would like to read our second Sustainability Report in Hungarian, please click here.
This summer, we are inviting seriously or chronically ill children, teenagers, and their family members to 4 camp sessions. Among these, the Sibling Camp and the International Family Camp promise to be particularly special.
Traditionally, we have held 4-day Sibling Camps in the spring, where children affected by illness bring their healthy siblings. Unfortunately, due to economic challenges, we haven’t been able to organize this type of camp for the past two years. However, we believe it is crucial to have a camp session focused on building sibling relationships. Prolonged, serious illness often weakens or complicates this special bond. For example, siblings might not see each other for extended periods during hospital treatments, or the disruption in family dynamics might result in less attention for the healthier siblings. Therefore, in the summer of 2024, we will be holding a Sibling Camp: in our third summer camp session at the end of July, children and teenagers living with illness will come together with their siblings.
In early August, we will be welcoming Czech and Slovak families. In our session organized in collaboration with our international co-foundations (Czech and Slovak Spolu s odvahou), which is slightly shorter than the 6-day camps exclusively for children, not only will campers come from Czechia and Slovakia, but there will also be volunteers who do not speak Hungarian. Thus, the working languages of the session will be both Hungarian and English. Our international camps have repeatedly proven that play and laughter are the strongest universal languages – and we know this time will be no different!
Curious about the fantastic camp mood? Click here for the latest pictures!
In our latest short film, our campers share what Bátor Tábor means to them. They explain how our free therapeutic recreational programs have helped them and their children face the fears caused by illness with even more courage, or how they’ve learned to accept living with a lifelong illness while staying strong and being kids.
“Bátor Tábor is a gate to a better world,” they say, and that’s exactly what we are working towards. Would you like to be part of our mission? It only takes 2 minutes until May 21st! Donate 1% of your tax to Bátor Tábor so that we can provide even more soul-healing experiences for seriously or chronically ill children and their families!
Bátor Tábor provides unforgattable experiences, a new family, a countless smiles and friendship for children and teenager who lives with a chronic or serious illness. On the programs of Bátor Tábor no one feels like an outsider, everyone is equally valuable, and families affected by illness are not alone. We not only shape a week in the lives of children but also forever change it, empowering them to believe that anything is possible.
Children diagnosed with severe, chronic illnesses face many challenges. They spend months in the hospital isolated from their families and friends. However, through Brave Camp’s free programs, they find strength for healing and confidence for life. Each year, they help over 3,000 sick children and their families! Your support is needed to continue their work so that more seriously ill children can experience healing moments!
We need your support in our mission: don’t forget to offef tor Bátor Tábor the 1% of your personal income tax. The deadline this year is: 21th May!
You can read more (in Hungarian) about how to donate 1% of your taxes here.
In 2023, a total of 5,340 individuals participated in the programs of Bátor Tábor (or our Slovak and Czech foundation, Spolu s Odvahou). Across the camp, classrooms, hospitals, online, or other offline programs not held at the camp, we provided a total of 40,624 therapeutic hours for seriously or chronically ill children, their families, classmates, and families who have lost their children.
Of these more than 5,000 participants, 3,605 took part in programs in Hungary. In Slovakia, 753, in the Czech Republic, 101, and in Poland, we provided courage and soul-healing experiences to 473 individuals through our free therapeutical programs.
Our School Outrech Program has been launched in Slovakia and the Czech Republic as well. Our GO! program also brings the power of play and laughter to the bravest ones next to the hospital beds in Szeged.
Our Breavement Camp turned 10 years old. In this special type of camp, moments of joy and sorrow go hand in hand. In addition to the usual programs, trained grief therapists support families who have lost their children to illness, accidents, or the perinatal period.
Of course, this year we also held all our programs with our volunteers: in 2023, exactly 653 enthusiastic and trained Cimborás – in a total of 4 countries. Their commitment is shown by the fact that on average, each volunteer participated in programs three times in 2023.
But more than the numbers, the children and parents tell us:
- “In Bátor Tábor, I learned that I am lovable.”
- “I have never seen my children as happy as here.”
- “I learned in the camp that I don’t have to be afraid when meeting new people.”
- “I am proud of myself because I have often overcome my fears and have not closed myself off.”
Would you like to help provide soul-healing experiences to as many seriously and chronically ill children as possible in 2024? Check out how you can support our work!
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