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Hungarian Baptist Charity collected over 50,000 donations this Christmas

50,930 individual donations packed into shoe boxes were given as Christmas presents to children in poor families this year.

The Hungarian Baptist Charity collected 50,930 individual donations packed in shoe boxes to give as Christmas presents to children in poor families this year. The charity said that some 10,000 donations had poured in for the popular Shoe Box Campaign in the few days before Christmas, held for the 18th time this year. Some of the boxes went to ethnic Hungarian children in Romania and Ukraine.

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