Meals served at Christmas charity event in Budapest reach thousands

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The Hungarian Krishna community delivered 2,500 hot meals and gift packages, offering warmth and hope to thousands, from the homeless to struggling families.

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00:00A tasteful Christmas for some of Hungary's most vulnerable. On Wednesday, more than 2,500

00:08hot meals were distributed by Krishna devotees in Hungary to the less privileged at homeless

00:13shelters and parks. At Nepliget, the biggest park in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, about

00:201,500 people, including middle-class families, benefited from the Christmas Day charity celebration.

00:30I came here because I was offered help. I have some food again, and the problem is that

00:37we are getting into alcoholism at the same time.

00:40The Christmas Campaign for Food for Life charity runs for two months from December to January

00:46with the goal of reaching about 10,000 people in need. Officials from the group say the days

00:52after Christmas Eve are the busiest due to low donations.

00:56The starvation costs, the constantly increasing inflation and the low social benefits

01:02are causing more and more people to stay in Nepliget. But fortunately, the citizens,

01:08even the homeless, can have a little bit of Christmas.

01:11Zoltán Siposegyi, Euronews, Budapest.

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