Hungary Helps scheme aids Nigerian Catholic Church
Hungary has provided 3,000 US dollars in emergency humanitarian assistance to the Nigerian Catholic Church.
Hungary has provided 3,000 US dollars in emergency humanitarian assistance to the Nigerian Catholic Church.
Polish Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek thanked Hungary for its contributions to the program.
The government’s Hungary Helps program has spent some 80 million dollars on reconstructing schools and hospitals and on economic support enabling locals to stay in their homeland.
HUF 4 million (EUR 10,700) worth of supplies has been sent to the earthquake-hit area around the town of Ljubinje in the southeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hungary and Brazil agreed on the need to help those in need in their homeland rather than encouraging migration, and to support Christians, “the most persecuted religious community in the world”.
State Secretary Tristan Azbej said the program not only helped persecuted people stay in their homeland, but “sometimes it was successful in reversing migration”.
Since 2017, Hungary Helps has launched over 170 projects in 50 countries, providing humanitarian aid, supporting reconstruction works and helping to preserve Christian communities in crisis regions.
Hungary’s aid has greatly contributed to the survival of Christians persecuted by the Islamic State or jihadist forces in Syria and Iraq.
Hungary's government has sent HUF 20 million worth of aid to the Czech Republic’s South Moravia region.
The projects are aimed at reinforcing the Christian communities and promoting their peaceful co-existence with the Muslim majority.
Climate change was badly impacting the biosphere of Africa’s Sub-Saharan region, while the technologies offered through the Hungary Helps scheme could help slow down those trends.
The author serves as state secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and for the Hungary Helps Program of the Prime Minister’s Office.
The Tangaza Catholic University will open a new agriculture faculty near Nairobi, while a health center will be built in northern Kenya, using funds from the Hungary Helps program.