Social Work Day Poster Exhibition

The Hungarian Maltese Charity Service in Budapest thanks the social workers with an outdoor poster exhibition on Social Work Day.

With the exhibition, the charity organization draws attention to the service of almost one hundred thousand workers in the sector, to their diverse, indispensable, yet often unnoticed work.

The Maltese Charity Service has placed 20 posters on the advertising surfaces of the Budapest Transport Center (BKK), and the outdoor exhibition will be on display for several months at several stops on the line of trams 4 and 6, on the platforms of Széll Kálmán tér, in at the busier junctions in Óbuda and next to the Keleti railway station. The advertising spaces were provided by the BKK to the charity free of charge.

More than 99,000 people work in the social sphere, 42,000 of whom care for residents of residential institutions that have been in a particularly difficult position due to the coronavirus epidemic. Elderly, disabled, psychiatric or addicted people live in 1,600 institutions in the country. The only outside people they can meet in these homes are social workers that are closed due to the epidemic. They now not only perform the tasks described in their jobs, but also take on the role of relatives, friends and acquaintances if need arises. Their work thus becomes an irreplaceable service.

Social Work Day has been observed in Hungary since 2016, November 12 and is a holiday for those working in the sector.