In addition to the school groups, there were also children living in state care and coming from the foster care network, as well as school children.
The Erzsébet camps in Balaton and Transylvania, which ran from mid-June to the end of August, have come to an end, more than 40,000 people joined the Erzsébet camps in Zánka, Fonyódliget and Transylvania every week, announced the state secretary for families of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation on Sunday.
The Erzsébet Foundation for Children of the Carpathian Basin (Erzsébet Foundation), which organizes the camps, provided accommodation, daily meals, health care and many programs for the schoolchildren in the camp program with the support of the government. About to the camps in Zánka and Fonyódliget
Groups came from 700 institutions, from 510 settlements across the country, as well as from beyond the borders.
Zsófia Koncz touched on the fact that this year the groups were able to travel to the Balaton camps and home for free. More than 22,000 campers took advantage of the opportunity. The train trip was organized by the Erzsébet Foundation and financed with government support.
At Lake Balaton, the children could participate in concerts, traditional, digital competence development and sports programs, games of skill, music and dance classes, environmental and educational presentations, community-building and spiritual programs with a Christian spirit, in addition to an adventure park, hang-gliding and archery. On the exathlon course of the Erzsébet camps in Zánka and Fonyódliget, the children covered almost 50 kilometers and cruised for about 600 hours.
Zsófia Koncz also reported that families came to the camp in Zánka on the weekends, and in addition to the beach, there were crafts, family cinema and concerts waiting for them. In Transylvania, the camp programs were supplemented with trips to Székelyföld. The Erzsébet camp in Transylvania is 10 years old this year, and Hungarian children have been able to camp together with their Transylvanian peers for 5 years now.
In the past decade, more than 20,000 Hungarian children from the motherland and across the border have been connected to the camp located near Madarasi-Hargita.
According to the information, more than three thousand children came from Transylvania, the Highlands, the South, Őrvidék, Transcarpathia and Croatia to the Balaton camp.
Doctors and nurses from the Bethesda Children's Hospital provided a 24-hour pediatric on-call service on all shifts in the excellently equipped "small hospital"-style health centers at the camp sites in Zánka and Fonyódliget, staff from the National Ambulance Service were constantly present in the camps with ambulances, and lifeguards looked after the campers on the shore.
The security service made sure that unauthorized persons could not disturb the children's camping. The fence in Zánka and Fonyódliget also serves this purpose, as well as the security camera system with 24-hour control. An emergency commander also served in each shift, whose primary task was to organize immediate action and to coordinate a possible emergency situation. There was no need for an emergency measure, explained the state secretary responsible for families.
He also touched on the fact that the Erzsébet Foundation provided five meals a day during the Balaton - Zánka and Fonyód Liget - vacation. In 10 weeks, the campers consumed, among other things, about 65 tons of vegetables and fruits, 35 tons of meat, and about 770,000 salty and sweet pastries, and more than 11 tons of dry pasta were cooked for lunch or dinner. During the service, the organizers also paid attention to gluten-, lactose- and milk protein-free and vegetarian meals. The menus are compiled by a dietitian and food specialist every year.
He also mentioned that the Erzsébet camps have become four-season since the renovations: the Zánkai Erzsébet camp hosts class trips from Monday to Wednesday and from Wednesday to Friday between September 9 and 27. Healing camps in Zalaszabar last until December, and from mid-November, the Erzsébet Foundation organizes Christmas camps in Zánka.
In the future, the government will continue to support the operation of the Erzsébet camps, which provide Hungarian families with discounted recreational opportunities, emphasized Zsófia Koncz in her statement.
MTI
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