Orbán Péter
Organization: Napra Forgó Kht (Sunflower Non-Profit Ltd)
Year Founded: 2000
Country: Hungary
Website: http://www.napra-forgo.hu/hu/bemutatkozas/sunflower_overview
Geographic Area of Impact: Hungary.
Model: Hybrid Non-Profit
Focus: Disabilities,Labor Conditions and Unemployment.
Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Hungary, 2007 The Innovation Napraforgó is a rehabilitation centre and an employment agency for people with “changed working abilities” or with disabilities. Its goal is to overcome the stigma attached by employers to the phenomena of disabilities and to reveal and spread the true skills and worth of the working disabled. Napraforgó provides employment opportunities for the disabled in the Pest region by outsourcing services in packaging, recording, gardening, cleaning, and other activities to companies. Its innovation lies in its formation of ‘work groups’. First, those looking for work are placed in groups of able and disabled workers – with each group complementing each other’s skills and abilities. Second, the group is dispatched to carry out outsourced activities with comparable or higher work ethic and efficiency than a group of only able workers. An employer then has an opportunity to fully employ the disabled workers. (In addition to the comparable work skills, such a move is supported by the government and on average has a higher productivity and lower attrition rate than normal workers would possess). In addition, the disabled workers become more skilled in compensating for any disabilities over time and also regain a feeling of self-worth and esteem. Napraforgó places 30-50 people annually (20-25% of the total number in need in the region) to pre-contracted companies. Working under normal market conditions self-confidence is recovered through gaining dignity and a feeling of success, which enables disabled people to stand on their own two feet in the future. In recognition of the model’s sustainable and social capital increasing nature, it is being expanded to county placement centers to help them deal with the disabled more successfully. Background Napraforgó Kht. operates according to 3 principles: 1. Mediating people with changed working ability to companies of the market economy (usually to logistics centers) using market forces. 2. Understanding and meeting the needs and requirements of both the employer and employees 3. Maintain a non-profit based setting, with an income stream arising from the payment by companies for the services provided by the Napraforgó team. Strategy Napraforgó works in the following areas of activities: Personal consultations: Job-seeking-, work-, career-, rehabilitation and psychological guidance; Preparation for employment in small groups; Workforce mediation; Professional development (training and employment programs in the IT sector, complex mentoring services, linking the social and the labor market services) 60-70% of its revenue is generated from business activities (selling services to industrial partners). The remaining income is received through realizing EU projects (i.e.: employing 100 women after maternal leave, etc.) The organization receives little or no government support. The Entrepreneur Péter Orbán graduated as a teacher of special needs and oligophrenic-logopedic. Since 1991 he has been working for several foundations dealing with people with disabilities. He is an innovative social entrepreneur who developed and runs the Foundation “Fecskepalota" and "Napra Forgó". Tibor Héjj is a businessman with a strong commitment to social responsibility. Parallel to his professional career he has always leveraged his capabilities and financial assets to be innovative in the social field. He is the founder of both "Fecskepalota" and "Napra Forgó".
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