Ukrainian refugee kids welcomed in Hungarian children’s summer camps

The Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) and the Hungarian Scout Association are organising summer camps throughout the season for more than 300 children who fled to Hungary from war-torn Ukraine, the organisers said on Friday.

The camps are held in Budapest and Nagykovácsi near the capital, and offer games, arts and outings, they said. They aim to help 5-16-year-olds to move past the trauma of experiencing war and to build a new community. Another goal is to ease the burden on the parents, they said.

HIA provides complex aid to refugees from Ukraine, including donations of clothes, medicine, food and hygiene products, but also helps with administrative tasks and provides legal and psychological aid, helps in tackling housing and in overcoming the language barrier, Zoltan Sipos, the head of HIA’s centre for supporting Ukraine refugees said.

HIA is also holding camps for some 150 internally displaced Ukrainian children in Viska, in southwest Ukraine.

Before, Lénárd Borbély, Csepel’s non-aligned mayor, announced on Facebook that they welcomed a group of kids from Transcarpathia in their brand new activity centre near the River Danube. Here are some photos: