Habakukk Alapítványi Óvoda, Budapest

Habakukk Kindergarten and Nursery Foundation /Alapítványi Bölcsöde-Óvoda/ has started working in 1991 though at that time we had only one group of children. Since that time, we have been continuously increasing, now we are working with 10 groups on the Hill of Roses in the II. district in two buildings, one is situated in the Felvinci street the other is on the Marczibányi square which started its nursery section in 2002 and awaits children in 3 groups from the age of 1, 5 years. Our kindergarten is basically characterised with an atmosphere of intimacy, children centricity, a wide development of skills, special nursery and pre-school groups, and from the age of 3 bilingual, German-Hungarian or English-Hungarian education. We bring great care to provide the children with high-quality environment, furniture and toys mostly made of natural material. We would like to provide a quality service, so that parents should be pleased with our work. We consider to be the most important that children attending our institutions should feel well and should physically, mentally and intellectually develop properly. We consider very important to maintain a partner contact, a continuous co-operation with the parents, and to take into consideration their opinions, and keep them informed. In 2001 the Ministry of Education published a tender build up the 1st Institution Model of the Comenius 2000 Public Education Quality Management Program. Habakukk was also among the winners of the tender, so in September of 2001 we were able to start to build up the Comenius I. Quality Management model upon state support. In 2005, our institute was awarded the title "Certified Kindergarten" by the Association of Foundational and Private Schools.