131 result(s) for poor families
Commissioner For Human Rights Criticizes Hungary
- 22 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Last week Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižneks submitted the findings of his visit to Hungary over the summer. The 43-page report discusses issues concerning media freedom, the fight against intolerance and discrimination, and human rights of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees. (The full report can be accessed here.)
Dialogue For Hungary Starts Soup Kitchen
- 11 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition Dialogue for Hungary (PM) is launching a hot meal food kitchen programme for the poor at the weekends in the winter, the party’s co-leader said. Tímea Szabó said that big families, children, and the homeless had become poorer during the Fidesz government.
Hungarian Charities Collect Gifts, Open Helplines For Poor On Advent
- 4 Dec 2014 11:30 AM
- community & culture
Baptist Aid has opened over 200 collection points throughout Hungary to collect shoebox-sized gifts for the poor. The central collection point, dubbed the Castle of Shoeboxes, opens in the heart of Budapest on Monday morning.
Hungary’s Govt Measures To Help Needy Through Winter
- 2 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The government is planning to take several measures to help the poor and homeless in the winter time, government spokeswoman Éva Kurucz told a press conference on Monday. Speaking at northern Hungary’s Sóshartyán, Kurucz said that the government would spend some 9 billion forints (EUR 29.4m) on services for the homeless, and would provide free firewood for poor families.
Eurostat: $2.20 Spent On Food A Day By Hungarians
- 8 Sep 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
One in three Hungarians (3.3 million) are now living in poverty while the average citizen has just HUF 522 (USD 2.19) per day for food and that amount is falling, according to a recent Eurostat report. This means that the average Hungarian must make ends meet with less than HUF 65,000 (USD 272) per month.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Half Of Families With Children Report Problems Affording Food In Hungary
- 3 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Almost half of Hungary’s families with children struggle to afford food, a Socialist politician said on Monday, citing a study of OECD member countries. Ildikó Borbély Bangó told a press conference that 47% of the families in the Gallup survey had found it difficult to buy food at some point.
A Turn To The Right In Hungary - An Analysis Of The 2010-2014 Period
- 11 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Conflicts with Brussels, utility cost cuts, symbolic debates. Just about every conflict of the past four years Viktor Orbán's administration went into was because of sovereignty and the shaping of a new framework for its interpretation. When did the cabinet have to retreat and when did the EU acknowledge that the rebellious Hungarian government was right?
Xpat Opinion: Post-Christmas Ruminations On Poverty In Hungary
- 30 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Left-wing columnists accuse the government of ignoring growing poverty. Their pro-government counterpart believes that the opposition is trying to politically exploit the poor, having done nothing to improve their lot while they were in government.
Commissioner For Human Rights Criticizes Hungary
- 22 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Last week Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižneks submitted the findings of his visit to Hungary over the summer. The 43-page report discusses issues concerning media freedom, the fight against intolerance and discrimination, and human rights of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees. (The full report can be accessed here.)
Dialogue For Hungary Starts Soup Kitchen
- 11 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition Dialogue for Hungary (PM) is launching a hot meal food kitchen programme for the poor at the weekends in the winter, the party’s co-leader said. Tímea Szabó said that big families, children, and the homeless had become poorer during the Fidesz government.
Hungarian Charities Collect Gifts, Open Helplines For Poor On Advent
- 4 Dec 2014 11:30 AM
- community & culture
Baptist Aid has opened over 200 collection points throughout Hungary to collect shoebox-sized gifts for the poor. The central collection point, dubbed the Castle of Shoeboxes, opens in the heart of Budapest on Monday morning.
Hungary’s Govt Measures To Help Needy Through Winter
- 2 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The government is planning to take several measures to help the poor and homeless in the winter time, government spokeswoman Éva Kurucz told a press conference on Monday. Speaking at northern Hungary’s Sóshartyán, Kurucz said that the government would spend some 9 billion forints (EUR 29.4m) on services for the homeless, and would provide free firewood for poor families.
Eurostat: $2.20 Spent On Food A Day By Hungarians
- 8 Sep 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
One in three Hungarians (3.3 million) are now living in poverty while the average citizen has just HUF 522 (USD 2.19) per day for food and that amount is falling, according to a recent Eurostat report. This means that the average Hungarian must make ends meet with less than HUF 65,000 (USD 272) per month.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Half Of Families With Children Report Problems Affording Food In Hungary
- 3 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Almost half of Hungary’s families with children struggle to afford food, a Socialist politician said on Monday, citing a study of OECD member countries. Ildikó Borbély Bangó told a press conference that 47% of the families in the Gallup survey had found it difficult to buy food at some point.
A Turn To The Right In Hungary - An Analysis Of The 2010-2014 Period
- 11 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Conflicts with Brussels, utility cost cuts, symbolic debates. Just about every conflict of the past four years Viktor Orbán's administration went into was because of sovereignty and the shaping of a new framework for its interpretation. When did the cabinet have to retreat and when did the EU acknowledge that the rebellious Hungarian government was right?
Xpat Opinion: Post-Christmas Ruminations On Poverty In Hungary
- 30 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Left-wing columnists accuse the government of ignoring growing poverty. Their pro-government counterpart believes that the opposition is trying to politically exploit the poor, having done nothing to improve their lot while they were in government.