From August 15, Hungary's first thematic program featuring volunteers and people employed at charitable organizations, We are looking for Good People, will appear with a new name and image. The public media's charitable, value-creating series can be seen every Sunday on Duna Televízíó.

With the launch of the program Önkéntesek in 2012, Duna Televízió was the first in the history of Hungarian television to show those civilians who use their free time to help others for the sake of the public good. Over the past 9 years, viewers have been able to get to know about 500 reports and more than 3,000 selfless helpers through the medium of Dunán Zakar Ádám editor-presenter.

Last August, the monthly magazine celebrated its 100th broadcast, and on the occasion of the jubilee, the producers rethought the program in terms of content and visuals. This is how We Are Looking for a Good Man was born, whose main message is to show public media viewers that it is not only good to receive, but also to give.

The thematic magazine continues to be varied, in the spirit of this, viewers could previously get to know, for example, the "peasant wellness" volunteers who build a sustainable village, the graffiti removers who remove graffiti in the city, or even a group that undertakes to translate foreign technical articles for free during the Covid epidemic. Ádám Zakar, the editor-presenter of We are looking for a good man, recommends the series to everyone from 9 to 99 years old. As he says, volunteering and charity are - fortunately - ageless in Hungary.

"According to domestic statistics, 3-4 million people regularly volunteer with different intensities. Good stories of good people are not only important and exciting for the viewers, but also for us, the creators. They cheer you up and inspire you during filming, which is hard to put into words. Being close to the volunteers and possibly helping them is clearly doping, " added Ádám Zakar, who has been working in the Hungarian media since 1995, but of all his tasks, "Looking for the Good Man" is closest to his heart.

"We looked for - and found - good people along exciting and interesting topics. In our first broadcast, we visited the team that operates the light railway in Kemence, where everyone from the train driver to the ticket collector to the traffic controller performs their work as volunteers, without a penny's pay, every weekend, after they have already worked 40 hours a week in their civilian life" - revealed the editor-presenter, who said that in the coming weeks, viewers will get to know, among other things, blind soccer and the Völgyzugoly house, which provides a home for children with multiple disabilities. He added that the crew will also film more than two thousand volunteers of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest in September.

The first broadcast of We Are Looking for a Good Man was shown this morning on the religious channel of Duna Television. The magazine is regularly repeated by the public media, and it will also be available on the show's official Facebook page and can be reviewed for 60 days on the MédiaKlikk page.

(Cover photo: Ádám Zakar. Source: Facebook)