08-04-2025
State Secretary: Hungary Helps program's mission in Nigeria yielded important results
The Hungarian delegation visited places in Nigeria where the Hungarian government cooperated with local church organisations and provided humanitarian aid to persecuted Christians.
Tristan Azbej, the state secretary in charge of assistance to Christian communities, said on Sunday that the Hungary Helps program's recent five-day mission in Nigeria has yielded important results.
The state secretary posted on Facebook from a Christian refugee camp in Benue State, and said the Hungarian delegation had visited places in Nigeria where the Hungarian government cooperated with local church organisations and provided humanitarian aid to persecuted Christians.
He said the mission had gone as far as the zone of active operations of the Boko Haram terrorist organisation, distributing food to refugees and victims of catastrophic flooding in Maiduguri.
In Onitsha, Hungary Helps inaugurated a training centre for 400 nurses, the state secretary said.
The Hungarian delegation, including MEP Gyorgy Holvenyi, met Nigeria's humanitarian affairs minister, as well as Christian and Muslim leaders, to discuss humanitarian aid, cooperation on developments, peaceful cooperation among different religious groups and preventing migration to Europe, Azbej said.
He also said that the Hungarian government would provide 23 million forints for a Hungarian medical mission and the drilling of wells for drinking water in the coming weeks.
