We will continue our food distribution work starting in January
Over the past year, we have served half a million meals to the Hungarian community, and based on the feedback we’ve received, we believe we’ve been able to help in a truly effective way. In 2017, we would like to expand our capacity and the scope of our activities, and to that end, we welcome the public’s generous support, including donations through the 1% tax designation. Although Christmas has passed, Food for Life continues its work at full steam […]
Preparing for Advent: We're Helping Thousands of Families This Christmas Season
This Christmas, our foundation is distributing nearly 10,000 servings of hot meals and 6,000 non-perishable food packages—each containing more than 20 ingredients—to those in need across the country. The month of December is filled with the excitement of Advent. Christmas is approaching, a holiday celebrated worldwide as a time of love in everyone’s hearts. During this season, people’s desire to give and to be active grows […]
DECEMBER'S FEATURED FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS
Our series of special food distributions for December will begin shortly. You can join our events at the following locations and times: GYŐR (Győrszentiván): December 10, 2016, 12:00 p.m. (200 servings of hot meals + non-perishable food packages) BUDAPEST (Óbuda, Flórián Square): Saturday, December 17, 2016, 11:00 a.m. (800 servings of hot meals + non-perishable food packages containing 20 different items each) BUDAPEST (Blaha Lujza Square): December 24–25–26, 2016, 11:00 a.m. (a total of […]
New distribution center on Kőbányai út
Our foundation has opened a new distribution center in Budapest, at 22 Kőbányai út in Józsefváros. As part of a program aimed at assisting homeless people, nearly 100 servings of hot meals are distributed each week. We have been working with the staff of the Budapest Methodological Social Center and its Institutions (BMSZKI) for many years, and we have organized hot meal distributions on countless occasions at their facilities located throughout Budapest, […]
The Food for Life Foundation is opening a new soup kitchen in Zugló
The Food for Life Foundation’s food assistance program will open its fifth soup kitchen in Budapest, in the 14th District, this November, where it will now provide daily meals for an additional 300 people in need. The Fifth Location: Including the one in Zugló, this will be the fifth food distribution site in the capital for our food assistance program, which has been running for two decades. The operation of the Zugló soup kitchen will be modeled after our Foundation’s „family assistance program,” […]
Interfaith Food Distribution on World Food Day
The Food for Life Program, the food relief mission of the followers of Krishna, is organizing its third major food distribution event of the year in the capital’s downtown area, at Blaha Lujza Square. As in previous years, several religious denominations are joining the effort this time as well, in the spirit of compassion and charity. The food distribution, scheduled for Sunday, October 16, is being organized by devotees as part of the campaign against hunger and poverty […]
Food Distribution in Pécs with Heti Betevő
Our volunteers in Pécs, working alongside our newest partner—the Heti Betevő team, which also provides assistance to homeless people—distributed 200 servings of vegetarian goulash and a variety of fruits to local people in need. As you know, we love to team up with volunteers from other dedicated organizations to multiply the impact of our efforts. On a weekend in late September, volunteers from our Foundation organized a food distribution event in which our teammates from Heti Betevő […]
Charity Camp for Children at Lake Balaton
Our foundation once again supported summer camps for children in need this summer. Children from the Kartal and Hatvan areas of Pest County spent a week of their summer on the shores of Lake Balaton. Every year, our organization contributes to summer camp programs for disadvantaged children. This year, in response to a request from representatives of the Child Welfare Institution in Nógrád County, children from the Kartal and Hatvan areas of Pest County […]
End-of-Summer Food Distribution in Győr
Staff members of our foundation distributed 100 packages of non-perishable food and 100 kilograms of food in Győr and Győrszentiván to local families in need and people with disabilities. The days are growing shorter; the sun still radiates its warmth, but weary autumn is already closing in. School doors are opening once again, and long lines of children wind their way, their hearts full of hope […]
Nyaral a legénység
Alapítványunk munkatársai egy csapatépítő tréning keretében ellátogattak a nagyszabású „Woodstock megálló” fesztiválra Lengyelországba. A látogatás során napi 600 főre készítettek ételt. Csomagok a kisbuszban, irány Lengyelország! Kis csapatunk július elején kilátogatott a lengyel Woodstock fesztiválra, Kostrzyn Nad Odraba. A város közvetlenül a lengyel-német határ mentén, az Odera folyó partján fekszik, a Warta torkolatánál. […]