The Hungarian Red Cross, in cooperation with a chain store, has collected 34 tonnes of goods it will distribute at Christmas among people and families in need, the organisation said on Thursday. The Hungarian Baptist Charity has collected 50,930 individual donations packed in shoe boxes to be given as Christmas presents to children in poor families, the charity told MTI on Thursday.
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In the case of the Red Cross, the goods include durable food, sanitary and hygienic supplies, sweets and toys donated by customers in 24 Auchan department stores over the past two Advent weekends across the country, it said in a statement.
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The donations will be sorted into combined packages by social care experts and distributed with the help of the Red Cross’s regional offices. “The donations will
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help us support 9,700 people and families primarily at Christmas time
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but also later on during ordinary days for a couple of weeks,” Judit Waller-Fekete, a representative of Red Cross, said in the statement.
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The Hungarian Baptist Charity said that some 10,000 donations had poured in in the last two days of the popular Shoe Box Campaign, held for the 18th time this year.
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Some of the boxes will go to ethnic Hungarian children in Romania and Ukraine.
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Source: MTI
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