Entertainment for children

The main aim of the the Smiling Hospital Foundation is to lift the spirits of sick children in hospitals in order to help the process of their recovery. Also other weak groups in society are supported, like ‘institutions for the mentally handicapped’ and the elderly in Homes for Aged People. The second aim is to help improve the general environment of the hospitals (painting walls in wards, gardens, etc.). A long term objective is to start “smiling hospital activities” in many countries outside Hungary with the support from local artists and financed by local sponsors.

The main aim of the the Smiling Hospital Foundation is to lift the spirits of sick children in hospitals in order to help the process of their recovery.
The methods being used are regular (most often weekly) visits by musicians, magicians, doll-players and other artists, who visit the children in hospitals and go room by room and from bed to bed. If the audience is not bedridden, then performances will be given in a central place. For a short introduction of this activity, please look at our video below:

In the year 2018 almost 300 volunteers visited close to 7000 hospitalised children all over Hungary

for detailed statistics see: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jlqyhzx2dZyzlySJYICnO5LJo0rBSFhBqHvTWesjpUg/edit#gid=1270144555

The list of hospitals, where regular activity is going on:

LOCATIONS	DATES
Budapest
Bethesda Children’s Hospital	Monday, Thursday
Heim Pál Children’s Hospital	Monday, Wednesday, Saturday
Children’s Madarász Hospital	Tuesday, Thursday
Semmelweis University Children’s Hospital no 1	Wednesday, Saturday
Szent János Hospital	Tuesday
Szent László Hospital	Tuesday
Tűzoltó street Children’s Clinics	Monday, Saturday
Debrecen
Debrecen University Medical Center Institute for Childrin’s Care (Belgyógyászati Osztály, Pulmonológia, Felvételi, Sebészeti Osztály)	3x weekly on altering days
Miskolc
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Hospital & Teaching Hospital	Wednesday or Thursday
Nyíregyháza
Jósa András Teaching Hospital (Sebészet, Belgyógyászati Osztály, Kisded részleg, Csecsemő részleg, Gyermekrehabilitáció)	Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Salgótarján
Szent Lázár County Hospital	2 x weekly
Szeged
Szeged University Clinics and Medical Center for Children	2 x weekly, mainly Tuesday and Thursday
Szekszárd
Tolna Megyei Önkormányzat Balassa János Kórháza	Monday
Veszprém
Veszprém County Hospital Csolnoky Ferenc	Wednesday