In recent months, more than 1,200 children from Ukraine have been sent to camps together with charitable organizations all over Hungary, said the State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office responsible for church and ethnic relations and the president of the National Humanitarian Coordination Council at the Erzsébet camp in Fonyódliget.
Miklós Soltész visited the camp organized for the children of refugee families from Ukraine and said: it is a great joy that despite many difficulties and sadness they were able to come to the camp, where they try to smuggle an experience into their lives that is full of love and friendship. He indicated that three hundred of the children who have been camped in Hungarian locations in recent weeks are now in the Fonyódliget camp, where they can spend a week.
Many of them have been in Hungary with their families for months, but there are those who came here from Kiev and then travel back.
He put it like this: "we gave this week from the bottom of our hearts", and if appropriate, they will be welcomed in the same place next summer.
Liliána Grexa, the Ukrainian nationalities advocate of the Parliament, thanked the Hungarian government and the organizers of the Elizabeth camp for enabling the children to leave the hell that reigned in their homeland and gain an experience of a lifetime.
The children prayed together with Damjan Gaborij, a Greek Catholic priest, and every camper could receive a storybook in Ukrainian.
The Erzsébet Foundation for Children in the Carpathian Basin announced that the camp for Ukrainian children in Fonyód Liget was organized by the ELTE Trefort Ágoston Vocational High School and the Hungarian Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Foundation with the cooperation of the Helping Hands Foundation for Ukraine.
Miklós Soltész also told MTI: by now, the number of people who came to Hungary from Ukraine has already exceeded 890,000. Almost 730,000 of them exchanged solidarity tickets, which they could use for free rail travel in Hungary.
Six charitable organizations and the Hungarian government provided assistance in some form to 420,000 people at the aid points along the border and in the BOK Sports Hall in Budapest, added the state secretary.
Source: MTI
Photo: MTI/György Varga
