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Budapest Times
08-04-2025
- Health
- Budapest Times
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.
Budapest Times
02-04-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Hungary provides aid to survivors of last week's earthquake in Myanmar
The people of Myanmar are not just in need of food, water and medical care, but also hope and solidarity, Tristan Azbej said. State Secretary Tristan Azbej said that Hungary's government is providing 5 million forints (EUR 12,420) in emergency humanitarian aid through the Hungary Helps scheme to the survivors of last week's earthquake in Myanmar. Azbej, the state secretary in charge of the program and aid to persecuted Christians, said on Facebook that the beneficiary of the aid is Caritas Hungary, the aid organisation of the Catholic Church, which, through its local Catholic partner, can deliver the aid directly to those who need it. The people of Myanmar are not just in need of food, water and medical care, but also hope and solidarity, the state secretary said. 'Hungary, building on its Christian values and humanity, stands with those in need at this difficult time,' he added. Azbej noted that last Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake was one of Myanmar's worst natural disasters of the past century. More than 1,700 people have been confirmed dead, close to 3,400 were injured, and 300 people are unaccounted for, he said, adding that experts expect these figures to rise. The search for survivors and relief efforts are made more difficult by the ongoing civil war and damaged infrastructure, he said.
