Hungarian Erzsébet camps hosted more than 40,000 this summer

Erzsébet camps in Balaton and Transylvania hosted more than 40,000 children from mid-June to the end of August, a government official said on Sunday.

Besides school groups, children living in state care and foster homes were able to enjoy the summer in camps where there were meals and health care provided day in day out, Zsófia Koncz, the state secretary for families of the ministry of culture and innovation, said in a statement, noting that the government supports the Erzsébet Foundation for Children of the Carpathian Basin which lays on the summer camps in Zanka, Fonyodliget and Transylvania.

Children from 700 institutions from 510 settlements throughout the country and beyond the borders travelled to the Balaton camps and back home free of charge, with more than 22,000 campers taking up the chance to do so. Train journeys were organised by the Erzsébet Foundation and financed with government support.

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Programmes included concerts, activities nurturing traditions, digital competence development and sports, with games, music and dance classes as well as environmental protection and educational presentations, community-building and Christian spiritual programmes on offer. In addition there were adventure parks, hang-gliding and archery.

More than 3,000 children arrived from Transylvania, Slovakia, Vojvodina, Transcarpathia and Croatia, among other Hungarian communities beyond the border, the statement said.

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