CÖF-CÖKA donated canning machines to the Single Parent Center

The Civil Solidarity Public Foundation continues its donation drive this year, this time handing over home canning devices to two locations of the Single Parent Center. So far, thanks to their supporters, they have helped communities in Hungary and beyond with more than 400 devices.

Norbert Heizler, the national coordinator of the Civil Unity Forum - Civil Unity Non-profit Foundation, said at the press conference connected with the handover that they started their civic mission in 2016, with the aim of providing assistance to NGOs, large families, single-parent families, small producers, community kitchens, which ensures that locally produced raw materials can be processed, consumed and sold locally. In order to do this, starting this year, the Civil Community Service Centers were contacted and the NGOs receiving donations were selected with their recommendation.

Norbert Heizler emphasized that, in addition to the fact that many products can be created with bottling machines, it is also important that all this can be done within the framework of a community-building program, which also contributes to the formation or retention of local communities. This spring, they will reach ten counties, two devices will be handed over in each county - emphasized the coordinator of CÖF-CÖKA.

György Pintér , the professional manager of the Budapest Civil Community Service Center, said that the Single Parent Center was the best place where this donation could have gone. One-parent families are very receptive to preparing healthy, preservative-free meals, and they are the ones who are also very active in this type of community-building programs.

Anna Nagy , the chairman of the board of trustees of the One-Parent Center, emphasized that one-parent families usually lack two things, these two things are time and money. Since you can save time and money with these tools, these donations are in the best place.

In Hungary, there are more than half a million children who are raised either only by their mother or only by their father, which means approximately three hundred thousand families. In addition to time and money, these people also lack community. Isolation and loneliness are characteristic of many of them, against which these machines can be a great help. According to the chairwoman, they can be very well connected to the fruit-picking "pick-your-own trips" successfully introduced last year, which made the life of the participants healthier and cheaper. These trips can be a very good continuation when these fruits arrive here at the center and the families can process some of them together.

Kinga Szőnyi , president of the Association of Hungarian Women's Interests, moderator of the event, asked the donors to donate some of the prepared preserves, jams, and other foods to those in need who are not given access to such handmade homemade flavors.

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