WE BELIEVE IN LEARNING’S
HEALING POWER
At KórházSuli (HospiEdu) we help children with learning who cannot attend school due to long-term, serious illnesses.
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.
We Provide Healing Education
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 doctors, psychologists, teachers, and families as well, 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.
Our Mission
During its first ten years of development, KórházSuli has built a complex knowledge base that offers a comprehensive and effective solution for supporting children missing school due to chronic illness.
The foundation currently helps 500–550 children per academic year, while annually, thousands of children’s equal opportunities are jeopardized due to long-term physical or mental illness.
Our mission is for every affected child to maintain their student role and return to school seamlessly.
We aim to ensure equal opportunities through systemic change, which is why we created our Methodology Center, which makes educational rehabilitation widely accessible through knowledge sharing and policy work.
How We Help
We Help Families
We help families who seek assistance with learning for their chronically ill children.
If you or a member of your family speaks Hungarian, please feel free to get in touch with us through our Hungarian-language page.
We Train Volunteers
We train volunteers to effectively support the studies of our recovering students.
If you speak Hungarian, we would be happy to receive your application via our Hungarian-language page.
We Support Professionals
We support professionals with inclusive workshops, training, and methodological publications.
Visit 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
21 Women for Healthcare Foundation Award
Richter Anna Award 2024 category winners
We were awarded the SozialMarie 2021 prize
MRE Bethesda
Children’s Hospital 2020 – Tamás Dizseri Charity Award
We won the silver medal in the HR BEST 2020 Future Generation category
CIVIL AWARD 2019
We were finalists for the most impactful project
We were awarded the SozialMarie 2021 prize
We are a SozialMarie 2024 award winner
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.
