Public Food Service
As part of our food assistance program for the poor, we serve hot lunches, bread, beverages, seasonal fruits, vegetables, and baked goods to more than 500 people daily in Budapest, along with occasional sweets and other complementary foods. Currently, this service is available in Népliget, in the parking lot behind the Planetarium (at the intersection of Rapaics Raymund Promenade and Hell Miksa Promenade); We serve lunch every weekday starting at 12:00 p.m., for about 1 hour […]
Back-to-School Promotion in Miskolc
This year marked the third time that the „Like a Bite of Bread” program, organized by Food for Life, has taken place in Miskolc. The initiative, designed to help families prepare for the start of the school year, provided support to nearly 200 people. The food packages—which included non-perishable staples, cornflakes, fruit, and cookies, represent savings for families, as the costs of purchasing school supplies and the start of the heating season would otherwise place a significant financial burden on families […]
Food parcel and hot lunch on the occasion of World Food Day
The Food for Life Foundation will hold its next major food distribution event in the capital on October 20. In Népliget, behind the Planetarium, they will be waiting for those in need with 900 meals and packages of non-perishable food, which, as always, represent assistance worth several thousand forints for those in need. The packages consist mainly of non-perishable, basic cooking ingredients, but also include fruits, treats, and other culinary specialties, […]
Back-to-School Assistance in Békéscsaba
We welcomed families in Békéscsaba with another fantastic back-to-school event! We welcomed 260 guests to our special local food distribution event, where we treated them to pizza, sweets, soft drinks, henna, and glitter tattoos. The children also received toys and notebooks for the start of school, which our volunteers delivered to a local school. This time, the food packages included flour, pasta, sugar, rice, oil, yellow peas, tomato paste, 3 kg of apples, and […]
Food Serving
A gentleman should have compassion for those who suffer
A conversation with Sivaram Swami, the chief minister of the Hungarian Society for Krishna Consciousness and the founder of the “Food for Life” program in Hungary. Why do Krishna devotees consider food distribution so important around the world? Is there a philosophical or traditional basis for this? There are four important pillars of a Krishna-conscious life: truthfulness, renunciation, decency, and kindness. One of our most ancient scriptures, the Bhagavata […]
Like a Bite of Bread: Summer Adventures
Our rural outreach series, the „Like a Bite of Bread” program, has provided assistance through new initiatives. In Nagykanizsa, the „Like a Bite of Bread” rural food distribution team delivered donations to another 200 people. This time, the packages were filled with plenty of vegetables, fruits, canned goods, preserves, granola bars, and Gauranga cookies. Our volunteers also prepared sandwiches for the residents of the local homeless shelter. Special thanks to the kind local donors, […]
We also help out at summer camps
Sometimes, in addition to distributing food, we also help out with special, one-of-a-kind programs. For example, we organized a program for children living on a vineyard hill in Baranya who have had particularly difficult lives—children who hadn’t had such a wonderful day in a very long time! They visited Krishna Valley with their chaperones. After a delicious snack, they went to the dairy farm and then to the local eco-playground to play. Afterward, they took a guided tour of the temple, […]
Children's Day Food Distributions Across the Country
More than 2,000 meals, countless packages, sweets, treats, and activities awaited the children and their families as part of the “Food for Life” Foundation’s Children’s Day event series. We visited 9 locations in just one week. We held our third event of the year in Békéscsaba on May 25, and it was a huge success. Once again, we had activities for the children, and we welcomed them with a huge buffet table full of treats […]
Food for Life – Daily Care in Eger
The Food for Life Foundation, a humanitarian organization run by followers of Krishna, has been carrying out its mission for 30 years. Daily cooking operations take place at the Govinda Restaurant and Cultural Center in Eger, which is also home to one of the foundation’s most important programs, providing meals to students. As part of its community-building efforts, the foundation distributes 500 servings of hot meals daily in Eger, and every week […]