We met in 2015, that was the year when our children started first grade in a special school for children with moderate intellectual disabilities and autism in Budapest. Nearly eight years have passed since then.
In this time we have gone through a lot by ourselves and as a community too: we met special needs education teachers, volunteer helpers, parents who were in the same boat as us. But the most important thing was experiencing day-by-day the many challenges and duties that come with living with autism – similar to our children, who experience these things first-hand, while we only watch them from the outside.

Eight years have passed, and suddenly our children are teenagers. We all arrived to the same question: what was going to happen after their compulsory education was over and they couldn’t go to school anymore? In our conversations it became clear that we all think similarly of our kids’ futures.
We want them to stay close to the family, while still living independently in their own community, an environment that we could also picture ourselves or any other family member in. And if we could do that as a community, with the peers we know well , that would mean immeasurable support for them in overcoming the hurdles of adapting to a new environment and lifestyle.

The first step in the preparation process is a day care facility, where we can make sure that their autism-specific therapy continues, and that all the hard work put into their development by their teachers and parents pays off both short-term and long-term. Andwhen after a few years we find that the time has come for them to start their adult life away from their parents, we want to create a microcosm for them where they can keep living in their accustomed community, in constant contact with their families, safely and happily.