The II. The lecturers, staff and students (151 people in total) of Ferenc Rákóczi Transcarpathian Hungarian College help Ukrainian refugees in Hungary as volunteers.
Among other things, the college's team undertakes interpretation tasks on MÁV flights, in Budapest railway stations, in the BOK hall in the organized work of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology's Deputy State Secretariat for Higher Education, supporting the work of aid organizations.
Hungarian-speaking people who speak Ukrainian, Russian or English and who are currently on a professional study trip in Hungary as part of the Makovecz or Erasmus+ mobility program applied for the job.
Some of the volunteers provide assistance on the trains: they work on special trains transporting refugees on the Záhony-Budapest, Kőbánya upper route and on international trains running between Biharkeresztes and Budapest. Their main tasks are the distribution of passenger brochures, the provision of information and assistance, and interpretation tasks for refugees. The trains typically carry 50-200 Ukrainian refugees in 8-10 cars, most of whom are women and children.
Another large group of applicants undertakes charitable activities in 12-hour shifts. At the Keleti and Nyugati railway stations, at the Kőbánya upper railway station, and at the aid site set up in the BOK hall in Budapest, they perform interpretation and other assistance work alongside the employees of the government offices.
A third group of colleagues and students help translate leaflets at the request of the State Secretariat for National Policy, while several take emergency calls in the designated offices, helping the work of the Tempus Public Foundation.
The college considers it important to help refugees forced to leave their homes due to the war in all possible ways, both in Transcarpathia and in Hungary.
Source: Kárpátalja.ma
(Cover image source: Ferenc Rákóczi II college website)
