ETP Slovensko

Founded in 1997, ETP Slovensko is a non-profit association based in Košice, Slovakia working on poverty & hunger, housing & homelessness, education +5 more.

ETP Slovensko, a civic association based in Košice, works to reduce intergenerational poverty and support socially disadvantaged people in eastern Slovakia. Its mission is education and development of people, organisations and communities towards civil society and sustainable development. Its work covers three main programme areas: housing (including self-help construction of family homes and microloans on Luník IX in Košice), work in communities (community centres, low-threshold services, preschool clubs, youth and non-formal education, mentoring) and education (the FIE learning method in schools, teacher training, the Access English scholarship programme and the Mosty za chudobu trainings). The organisation is a non-public provider of social services in Košice and the Prešov and Košice regions. It was established as a branch of the USAID-supported Environmental Training Programme in 1992 and has operated as a civic association since 1997.