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„Christmas food distribution is a family outreach” - www.inforadio.hu
More people lined up this year at Christmas food distributions in the capital than last year. “This year, the 1,200 daily meals weren’t enough,” the coordinator of the Food for Life Foundation, which distributed food at Blaha Lujza Square over Christmas, told ReggelInfo. Péter Szilaj’s wife explained that there has never been such high demand for the food distribution in any previous year, […]
Hungarian Christmas Reality, 26 December 2011 - www.nol.hu
MTI published a heart-wrenching Christmas scene accompanied by a brief and modest caption: „A bystander takes a photo of people waiting in line at the ”Food for Life’ public benefit foundation’s Christmas distribution of hot meals and food packages at Blaha Lujza Square.” Read more at www.nol.hu.
It's not just Christmas that brings the cold - www.nepszava.hu
Christmas is here, and tonight the entire Christian world is awaiting the Savior’s arrival, yet there are many who are concerned not primarily with the spiritual preparations or the problem of not having a gift yet, but rather with the fact that they have nowhere to sleep in the cold. Since early October, nearly 200 people have frozen to death in their homes or on the streets […]
Blaha Lujza Square food distribution 2011 - satimari.blogter.hu
This is my third year volunteering. I wrote about my experiences last year, so I won’t go over them again—some things, unfortunately, never change 🙁 People love to volunteer; it’s simply hardwired deep in our subconscious to help our fellow human beings—we just need to be given the opportunity! For example, several people reached out to me this year saying they’d like to help out at Blaha Square, and to let them know if I need anything […]
Celebrities help with the Christmas food distribution - Krishna devotees prepare more than 6000 portions (csocsodalom.hu)
The Hungarian Society for Krishna Consciousness and its food assistance program, Food for Life, will hold a special Christmas food distribution at Blaha Lujza Square from December 24 to 26. Artists and athletes will be on hand to support this exemplary work. The Food for Life Foundation moved to Teleki Square in May of this year at the request of the local government, but its holiday event will take place at its usual location, Corvin […]
„More and more families in need” - Christmas food distribution
Although they technically lost their religious status under the new religious law as of January, the Hungarian Society for Krishna Consciousness is once again distributing festive meals this year in Budapest and other cities across the country. Pastor Csilla Szilaj Péterné reported to STOP readers on the food distribution taking place on December 24, 25, and 26. “From a legal standpoint, the church law does not affect this now-traditional food distribution, as it is carried out as an initiative by a civil society organization […]”
Civil Radio 16.12.2011.
This video, taken just before Christmas, shows that our Foundation is not only active at Christmas, but all year round. During the programme, Péterné Szilaj tells us how much happens in a year in the life of a food distribution organisation.
Klubrádió - Food Bank
The Food Bank Association is launching a competition to support Children's Day programmes for young people from families in need, and one of the winners is our Foundation. In this interview, both the Association and our Foundation will tell us about the success of the programme.