Debrecen4U
June 19, 2025
Kiserdő Reformed Nursery in Józsa was inaugurated
In Józsa, the Kiserdő Reformed Nursery will soon open its doors. With 98 places, 79 children have already been registered. The investment was financed by the EU and national funds, with more than HUF 1.7 billion. Two years ago, there wasn’t even a nursery in the neighborhood, but now the second institution is opening.
The future kindergarteners have already been able to try out their newest toys at the Kiserdő Reformed Nursery. Irén Debreceni is happy that her little son, Nimród will soon be able to spend his everyday life near the forest, in the fresh air. “It is very useful for us that this nursery opened here in Józsa. It would have been possible for our child to go to the Felsőjózsa nursery or a Debrecen nursery, but this nursery is much closer to our home and we will obviously save time this way after I go back to work. I also think that it is in a very good location, a little further away from the noise of the city,” Irén Debreceni pointed out.
The newest church nursery maintained by the Tiszántúli Reformed Church District was handed over in the Debrecen-Alsójózsa district. The investment was realised from European Union and domestic sources, with more than HUF 1.7 billion. The institution has 96 places and based on the preliminary applications, 79 children are now guaranteed a place.
“We would like the Lord of our life, Jesus Christ, to keep the staff busy and through them to help the children, parents and grandparents who will come here to feel that this house is a source of blessings,” the bishop of the Reformed Church District of Tiszántúl, Károly Fekete emphasised.
The district of the city with a population of 13 thousand did not have a nursery school for two years, and now the second one is being opened, providing care for almost two hundred children on site.“ We can say that the measures that the government, the city, its partners, and the churches take together, if there is a good example of it, it is here in Józsa. Because these measures work. After all, children are born, families move to Józsa,” Deputy Mayor Ákos Balázs pointed out.
The municipality provided the more than 5,200 square metre plot for the nursery. Mayor László Papp highlighted, that here is close cooperation with the churches in the operation of educational institutions: in addition to the 14 municipal nurseries, there are five church-run nurseries in the city. “ I think that we have eliminated one of our major shortcomings by 2025, and we need to see the processes taking place in the city. We are always planning for the future, and I believe that these developments have created the nursery infrastructure and capacity that can meet the needs of a city the size of Debrecen,” as Mayor László Papp put it.
“Debrecen is the city of nurseries,” the State Secretary responsible for families said in her welcoming speech. Zsófia Koncz also pointed out that Debrecen is clearly above the national average in terms of church-run nurseries. “When we launched this work in 2010, there were actually 32,500 places in the country. Now we are talking about 70,000 places. This is a very serious step forward. But we have also managed to open several nurseries in the recent period. And now we can also say that there are 910 municipalities in the country where there was nursery in 2010, and today there is one,” State Secretary for Families at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation Zsófia Koncz explained.
The National Assembly voted on the 2026 budget on Tuesday, which State Secretary Zsófia Koncz called the budget for families raising children. Next year, HUF 4,800 billions will be spent on family support measures.
Source and photo credit:debrecen.hu
