WE BELIEVE IN LEARNING’S
HEALING POWER

At KórházSuli (Hospital School), we help children with learning who cannot attend school due to long-term, serious illnesses.

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The stories of the children who learn with us prove that:

  • learning provides companionship in loneliness,
  • brings activity into idleness and helps keep pace with school material,
  • distracts from pain and fear,
  • provides a sense of achievement, thus boosting self-confidence.

It serves as a source of daily motivation – thereby offering an achievable vision for the future, a purpose in life, and hope in hopelessness.

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We support the learning of sick children in both home and hospital settings. We connect everyone needed on the often multi-year journey back from hospital to school.

We pay special attention to families, teachers, doctors, and psychologists, so that through their collaboration and knowledge sharing, we can build a supportive community around every child.

Our students are helped to keep up with their studies by university and high school volunteers, who receive professional training and continuous support from our expert team.

How We Help

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We Help Families

We help families who seek assistance with learning for their chronically ill children.

Apply for healing education!

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We Train Volunteers

We train volunteers to effectively support the studies of our recovering students.

Apply to be a volunteer!

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We Support Professionals

We support professionals with inclusive workshops, training, and methodological publications.

Get to know the Methodological Center!

For Every Sick
Child

In Hungary, at this very moment, thousands of children are learning alone, without peers or teachers – due to chronic illness.

At KórházSuli, we work for a society where no child falls out of education or their peer community because they are struggling with a long-term illness.

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500 CHILDREN

We help chronically ill children

  • We assist with home schooling
  • We maintain hospital study rooms
  • We recruit, train, and support volunteers
  • We hold unconventional homeroom classes

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EXTENDED ACTIVITIES

We support system stakeholders

  • We build a national network
  • We hold university courses
  • We initiate and develop professional collaborations
  • We provide accredited training for educators and social workers
  • We hold thematic and sensitivity workshops for educators
  • We write methodological publications
  • We organize inter-sectoral forums

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SYSTEMIC CHANGE

We work for systemic change

  • We bring experience, knowledge, and intent to expert working groups.
  • We have achieved several legislative amendments concerning children affected by chronic illness.
  • We are co-authors of the 2022 ministerial guideline on the education of children affected by chronic illness.

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ALL AFFECTED

Our Goal: Social Impact

Our mission is the educational rehabilitation of chronically ill children, and to raise the widest possible awareness of its importance and challenges. Around this, we are building a well-educated social base, sensitive to the issue, and capable of advocating for equal opportunities.

Life with us

Our Recognitions

OTP Fáy András Educational Innovation Grand Prize 2025

Richter Anna Award 2024

SozialMarie 2024

SozialMarie 2021

MRE Bethesda
Children’s Hospital 2020 – Tamás Dizseri Charity Award

HR BEST 2020 Future Generation category silver medal

CIVIL AWARD 2019
Highest impact project

Edisonplatform Award 2019 Opportunity category

Our Team

Director

Tóthné Almássy Monika

My story began many years ago in the oncology department of Madarász Street Hospital, where I worked as a hospital educator. It was there that I quickly recognized that the education of chronically ill children was a severely underserved area, jeopardizing their future and equal opportunities.

From this realization, KórházSuli was born, which I have been building and leading as a co-founder for over 10 years. My goal is that, as a result of KórházSuli’s work, every child in Hungary undergoing long-term medical treatment receives the education they are entitled to.

Professional Lead

Krisztina Budai-Tóth

I began my career as an educator, then spent 20 years at a multinational company, and later worked in the field of mental health. I joined KórházSuli in 2020. As the Professional Lead of the team, my most important task is to ensure that healing education reaches as many sick children as possible.

Through training programs and publications, we strive to enable volunteers and professionals to adequately support the learning of sick children. We also aim to bring the education of chronically ill children into focus at a systemic level and within the legal framework. My goal is for sick children to remain children, and their families to remain families – with the hope of a happy future.

Operations Manager

Anita Drevényi

I joined KórházSuli in September 2017 from a corporate environment.

My responsibilities include HR, financial administration, and the operation of backend systems—such as our CRM and application. It is important to me that through my work behind the scenes, I create security and stability, facilitating the efficient and smooth operation of the foundation.

Head of Fundraising and Communications

Noémi Kertész

I have been working in marketing and sales for over twenty years. Starting in the corporate sector, I consciously transitioned into activism and then into the world of non-profit fundraising and communications, where I have found everything that makes my workdays meaningful and fulfilling.

The task I received from KórházSuli has most powerfully engaged my creative, thoughtful, and strategic side: building the foundation’s communications and fundraising—which I have been doing with genuine passion and energy since the spring of 2024.

Educational Coordination Expert

Spéderné Csonka Fruzsina

In 2021, I joined the team as a university student volunteer. For over two years, I have been working at the foundation, first as a learning support coordinator, and later as an educational coordination expert. I receive applications from sick children, establish contact with them, and find a volunteer with whom they can study.

In addition to the children, I coordinate the university student volunteers, participate in their training, connect them with the students’ parents, and help them initiate joint study sessions. This role is very close to my heart, as it allows me to give back everything I received here as a volunteer.

Professional Director

Danku Gréta Hanna

I am in a unique position, as I have been able to follow KórházSuli from the very beginning

School Inclusion Specialist

Fruzsina Papp Sződiné

I am a social worker who joined KórházSuli in 2023 after 10 years of work in child protection. As a school inclusion specialist, my main goal is to support the teachers of the students we assist so they can implement the educational rehabilitation process with proper preparation and appropriate methodological tools.

Teachers can meet me at unconventional homeroom sessions, professional workshops, and forums. I strongly believe in cross-sector collaboration and that teachers hold one of the keys to supporting ill children.

KórházSuli Circle of Influence

The members of our advisory board are key figures in the business world who support the development of KórházSuli through their professional expertise and connections.

Esterest Consulting, Managing Director

Eszter Árvai

No child should feel alone during an illness. It's important to me that KórházSuli helps ensure that alongside learning, friendships and community are not lost.

OPTEN, Strategic Director

Hajnalka Csorbai

I wasn't born a wizard... but I believe in the power of professional and emotional support that KórházSuli provides to sick children and their families.

Soulware Zrt., Chief Executive Officer

Krisztián Darvas

A good cause, good people - it's good to be part of this.

Kék Zóna Közösség Kft., Managing Director

Zoltán Gazsi

Authentic people, a fantastic mission.

BKIK, Head of International Projects

Mónika Harsányi

Creating value together with an exemplary organization and community. KórházSuli is hope and a superpower for sick children and their families.

Billingo Technologies Zrt., Chief Executive Officer

Albert Sárospataki

May every chronically ill child have a stable and reliable bridge between the hospital room and school.

Roche Magyarország Kft., Medical Director

Péter Vereckei

Without the KórházSuli team, there is no complete recovery. Their passion, their mission gives strength to everyone!

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At KórházSuli (Hospital School), we provide healing education to children who cannot attend school due to long-term, serious illnesses.