In-Kind Donations exceed 1000 Tons

Due to the war in Ukraine, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. IDPs have reached the Western part of Ukraine and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has been providing emergency response from the first day. Daily update.

06/03/2022

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Hungarian Communities of the Region Mobilize Themselves

Due to the war in Ukraine, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. IDPs have reached the Western part of Ukraine and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has been providing emergency response from the first day. Daily update.

05/03/2022

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"Green Angels" Receive Refugees, Bishops Visit Ukraine

With this daily updates and short news we offer a glimpse into Friday's activities and events. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid continued offering help to Refugees and visited Transcarpathia with a delegation inlcuding all the four Bishops of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

04/03/2022

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Bishops of the Reformed Church in Hungary Visited Transcarpathia

All the four Bishops of the Reformed Church in Hungary travelled today to the Western region of Ukraine to meet with Bishop Sándor Zán Fábián, and pastors and elders of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia in Beregszász (Berehove).

04/03/2022

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Refugee Moments from Personal Perspective

Eyewitness report of our colleague from Transcarpathia, who fled Ukraine and arrived to Budapest as a 'refugee'. But she couldn't stay in his friends' apartment, doing nothing. So she is working among the refugees as a volunteer at the railway stations in Budapest.

02/03/2022

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Reformed Community Proved Love in the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the Reformed Church in Hungary and Reformed congregations and organisations have all been trying to do their best to help refugees.

01/03/2022

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Bethesda Children’s Hospital Offers Help to Refugees

Medical Doctors of the Bethesda Children’s Hospital of RCH are waiting for Refugees arriving from Ukraine at the Nyugati railway station in Budapest, and soon volunteer doctors will also travel to Záhony, a city near the border.

01/03/2022

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Donations Exceed Hundred Thousand Euros

Záhony, a city near the Ukrainian border, has become the hub for the intervention of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid, with thousands of people crossing the border from Ukraine each day. In Budapest, Aid organisations, NGO’s and civilians work together in receiving refugees from the morning hours until midnight at the railway stations. The shortage of shelters represents the biggest challenge at the moment.

01/03/2022

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HRCA’s Emergency Response in the First Two Days

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has mobilised all of its capacities for the Emergency Response in Ukraine in the first two days of the Ukrainian-Russian armed conflict. HRCA transported more than 10 tons of food across the border, provided shelter for more than a hundred refugees directly, organized and maintained its presence at border crossings, and coordinated more than a thousand volunteers across the country.

28/02/2022

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Emergency Response for Ukraine - Overview and Updates

On February 24 Russia attacked Ukraine and invaded the country. Due to the military operations and actual war in our neighbouring country, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. Internally displaced people have reached the Western part of Ukraine, called also Trans- or Subcarpathia and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) has been providing emergency response from the first day and will keep international partners informed about its operation by publishing daily updates.

28/02/2022

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RCH Offers Help in Ukraine

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid, the Charity organisation of RCH is also helping those suffering from the war in Ukraine with food supplies and fundraising. Meanwhile, spiritual leaders are urging prayer for peace and are in constant contact with our brothers and sisters in Transcarpathia, assuring the local community of their full support.

24/02/2022

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Church Aid Campaign for Pakistan

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) launched a donation campaign last year to support the humanitarian program offering help to Afghan refugees in the country. Thanks to the donations, RCH was able to offer 14 000 USD to the Presbyterian community in Pakistan.

09/01/2022

Where Dreams Come True

The Advent and New Year season is the most significant period in the life of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA). We have visited HRCA’s warehouse in Ebes, a city near to Debrecen, where volunteers work around the clock to select and wrap the gifts of the wishlists of needy kids.

13/12/2021

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“Personal Contact With Volunteers Is Important”

Lilla Vad joined the staff team of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid in February 2009 as the coordinator of the Bridge of Love program. During her more than a decade of service, she has experienced the growth of the organization and the multiplication of tasks.

12/11/2021

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HRCA Helps Thousands of People at Christmas

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) would make Christmas brighter for more than nine thousand families and elderly people living under difficult circumstances. Several relief actions have been launched, which can be joined by donating items, granting wishes to needy children or donating money.

09/11/2021

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Joint Solidarity with Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid, answering the call of the Presbyterian Church in Pakistan, launched a two-week donation campaign to support the humanitarian program offering help to Afghan refugees in the country.

05/11/2021

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„Love Not With Words, But With Actions”

The news of children dying of starvation or homeless people freezing to death deeply sadden and trouble all people of good will and create a sense of helplessness. In Hungary too, there are many disadvantaged families who do not have warm or even cold food on the table every day.

26/10/2021

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Put to Test at Mass Casualty Exercise

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid organised a complex emergency management exercise. During the large-scale training, the medical team and the search and rescue team had to solve theoretical and practical tasks.

23/09/2021

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Discorvering Local Values

Entering the life of a town is a slow process for us, which is a conscious aim of ours, as we hope to achieve organic development, says Lívia Böröcz, Head of the Development and Integration Programme of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid.

16/09/2021

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Forget Me Not - Solidarity and Support in Ukraine

A delegation of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid travelled to Beregszász, a city near the Hungarian border, on last Tuesday. They did not arrive empty-handed. They delivered one hundred schoolbags filled with school supplies and one hundred thousand surgical masks.

10/08/2021

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