The International SOFT Federation (ISF) is a non-gouvernmental organisation
(NGO) established on voluntary basis. It is functioning under Hungarian law,
and consists of NGOs working in behalf of chronic ill, physically and mentally
handicapped children and youngsters in Europe's post-Communist region. The
ISF has an international Board as well as an international Visiting Committee.
Its Secretariat is established in Debrecen, Hungary.

Members of the ISF co-operate in the creation of both human and social
capital to improve the health care and welfare provisions of disabled children
and youngsters in the countries involved. Simultaneously they contribute to
the strengthening of civil society. In view of these aims, the ISF is developing
and implementing strategies in the field of communication, adult education
and learning, NGO management, efficient use of existing means and the
exploration of new resources.

ISF exerts itself to improve the communication between its members as well
as between these and their societal environment. The latter is necessary in
order to further the social inclsuion of the disabled. Furthering adult
education and learning encompasses the creation and diffusion of professional
information and knowledge as well as the acquirement of civic competencies
needed to generate and to maintain networks, values and norms that are
prerequisites of a human society in which people care of the disabled in
accordance with their needs and help them to become fellow-men,
fellow-citizens and fellow-workers in accordance with their possibilities.