With its Christmas initiative, the Single-parent Center wants to help more than two hundred single-parent families in difficult situations in Budapest and the countryside.

In the announcement sent to MTI, it was written that for a while the activities of the Single-parent Center were concentrated only in Budapest, and they were mainly able to help single-parent families living in the capital. By launching their online services and by donating food, cleaning and hygiene products, they reach more and more rural single-parent families. By now, the center has clubs in several rural and cross-border settlements.

As highlighted: since the establishment of the Single Parent Center, it has been trying to help single parents in as many places as possible in the country. An important milestone in this is their "2021 Christmas Ambassador" initiative. The center has contacted prominent people with local ties who will take the packages from Budapest to the various counties of the country before Christmas. With their help, a single-parent family living in the countryside will receive a package containing cleaning and hygiene products worth HUF 25,000 per person by Christmas.

This year, the Single Parent Center will be able to make everyday life easier for almost 400 families, 250 of whom live in rural areas. In 2021, the Single-parent Center delivered more than 6 tons of food to single-parent families in need of support, a total of 18 tons in the past years, they wrote.

According to the announcement, more than half a million children are raised by a single parent in Hungary, and there are approximately 300,000 single-parent families. The Single Parent Center in Budapest was opened in May 2018 to provide practical help and community to families without one parent.

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Cover photo: Olympic champion Tamás Lõrincz (b) and Olympic silver medalist Viktor Lõrincz (l), Christmas ambassadors of the One-Parent Center, and Anna Nagy, head of the center, at the institution's headquarters in Budapest on December 8, 2021.
The center strives to be able to help single parents in as many places as possible in the country, and the Christmas ambassadors deliver Christmas gifts to them. MTI/Zoltán Balogh