Here’s when the Finnish Santa, Joulupukki will visit Hungary

After last year’s tour, the original Finnish Santa, Joulupukki, will visit Hungary again. The MikulásGyár “charity festival” in Hungary would like to collect 120 thousand kilos of non-perishable food and distribute 25 thousand gifts to kids. The Finnish Joulupukki will help that project with a 13-day-long tour.

According to index.hu, MikulásGyár is one of Hungary’s greatest charity events and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year between 29 November and 21 December.

“The philosophy of MikulásGyár is based on tolerance, mutual acceptance, solidarity and humanism. Since 2005, MikulásGyár has been operated by private individuals within the framework of a non-profit foundation. We work with around 2,000 volunteers every year, and we are also an outstanding campaign in terms of the number of volunteers”, they write on their official website.

On the 20th anniversary, the Finnish Santa, Joulupukki will tour Hungary for 13 days to meet with Hungarian children and give them presents.

Photo: FB/MikulásGyár

Joulupukki visited 54 locations last year

In 2023, MikulásGyár distributed gifts to more than 8,300 children in 54 locations. Joulupukki met with more than 17 thousand children during his 10-day-long stay while attending 20 events in 10 settlements. He travelled 3,300 kilometres in Hungary during those 10 days.

MikulásGyár hopes that they will be able to make even more children smile.

“In order for as many people as possible to come and donate, we are organising more than 120 concerts, theatre performances, film screenings, and professional talks for visitors, and we are providing an interactive playhouse for children between November 29 and December 21 at one of Budapest’s busiest junctions on approximately 1,500 m2, with beautiful and special installations. Of course, all our events are free, and according to our calculations, we will host about 110,000 visitors”, MikulásGyár writes on their website.

HERE you can support the operation.

In this article, you may read about the traditions connected to the day of Saint Nicholas in Hungary.

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