Hungary Helps aid program supporting 100,000 people all over the world awaits volunteers
The government’s Hungary Helps aid programme has so far provided support to more than 100,000 people around the world and is now calling for volunteers, a government official told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio on Sunday.
The government launched its international aid programme in early 2017 with aiming to help persecuted Christians, Tristan Azbej, the state secretary responsible for aiding persecuted Christians, said.
The programme now calls for volunteers
The programme now calls for volunteers
willing to give English classes
and holding workshops online to schools and family support centres in Africa or the Middle East, Krisztina Karman, director of the volunteer programme, told the radio programme.
Volunteers would be welcome to travel to the African continent after the pandemic had been contained to help out in hospitals and children’s homes, she said, adding that engineers would also be welcome to help with construction projects. Further details are available at on******@on**********.hu, she said.
As we reported before, in 2019, the government’s Hungary Helps scheme, which coordinates humanitarian efforts in crisis areas, has attracted much respect in North Rhine-Westphalia. State secretary in charge of persecuted Christians Tristan Azbej held talks then in Duesseldorf with the local government minister in charge of European Union affairs Stephan Holthoff-Pfoertner, as well as several senior Landtag members and church leaders. It depended on the political affiliation of the negotiating partners to what extent they represented the “west European and German pro-migration position” but
some politicians from the Landtag shared the Hungarian view that mass migration has serious security risks,
for instance due to the activities of human smugglers, he said.
The Hungarian government’s anti-migration policy was judged differently by the different negotiating partners but “we could always find some shared views” and
everybody said Hungary’s humanitarian policies and the Hungary Helps scheme were exemplary,
he added.
Source: MTI