This year, the Hungarian National Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired (MVGYOSZ) is supported by the public media; thanks to the collaboration, more than HUF 180 million was collected by the end of the all-day program stream on Sunday evening - it was said on M1's Ma reglegg program on Monday.

Sándor Nagy, president of the Hungarian National Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired, said in the program: Sunday was a very difficult but glorious day. It was an uplifting feeling to experience how people stood by the cause and supported the Good to be good! program and visually impaired people.

Among the most beautiful moments of the campaign, Ádám Szalai, a former national team footballer, singled out the "It's good to be good!" the work of his goodwill ambassador, who personally helped with Sunday's fundraising and offered his autographed national team shirt to the Good to be Good! campaign auction.

Speaking about the 86-time national team athlete, Sándor Nagy emphasized: it was great to see how empathetic he was, how much he tried to understand their situation, to experience how severely visually impaired it is to live.

The president said: According to the census data, there are 82,000 severely visually impaired people in Hungary who can use their services, with which they would like to improve their quality of life, help with their transportation and education, and make their lives easier by operating various aids and developing applications. They also help with the education of high school students, he said, emphasizing that they have a lot of tasks ahead of them.

The donations and the amount received from the auction will be used, among other things, for the supply of textbooks, the training of guide dogs for the blind, the development of an audio library and Braille library, and the purchase of tools that help everyday life.

Beatrix Siklósi, channel director of Kossuth Rádió, it's good to be good! their project manager emphasized that during the campaign they also made friends and got to know people from whom they could learn a lot. As he said, visually impaired people have such perseverance and determination that they can set an example for society.

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