The donation will be sent to the Transcarpathian Reformed Church Diaconia Center.
The Washington-based Kossuth Foundation is helping the Transcarpathian Hungarian community with a HUF 500,000 donation, the president of the foundation announced at the organization's ceremony on August 20 in the American capital.
At the ceremony held in Kossuth Ház, the community center of the local Hungarians, Sándor Végh explained that the donation, for which an additional collection was also announced, will be delivered to the Subcarpathian Reformed Church Diaconia Center and will be partly intended for the Good Samaritan Home in Nagydobronyi.
In his speech, the president of the Kossuth Foundation spoke about how the founders of the Hungarian state chose sovereignty, peace, Christian faith and social stability, which was the same path that the founders of the United States of America chose almost 250 years ago.
He added that the West, which promised Hungarians a better future and prosperity for a thousand years, is today, according to many, deviating from the path of its traditions. The head of the American Hungarian diaspora organization explained that for Hungarians and Americans, freedom, sovereignty and independence are common, inalienable values.
At the ceremony in Washington, joining the Hungarians' Bread Program, wheat from different regions of the Carpathian Basin and American wheat were mixed together, which also symbolized national unity and community with the host country.
Judit Máyer, the pastor of the leaders of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Washington, blessed the bread baked from Hungarian and American flour, which the organizers of the ceremony called the bread of the American Hungarians.
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