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Meeting of the awardees of St. Martin Diocesan Caritas Scholarship
The scholarship program of St. Martin Diocesan Caritas was launched in 2007 in Transcarpathia. It aims to support Catholic young people who graduate from a Hungarian high school in Ukraine, and enroll in higher education also in Ukraine but do not have the financial means to complete the university or college program without external support. The scholarship's goal is to promote the training of the future generation of young Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in Transcarpathia. The scholarship is announced every semester and is funded by several Foundations as well as private donors: the Szolgálat Kész (Ready to Serve) Foundation ( Hungary); The Transcarpathian Franciscan Mission Foundation (Hungary), Christina Funnell (Great Britain).
The five-member scholarship committee organized the second meeting for all the awardees this year on March 20th. The meeting started with a mass was celebrated by Rev. Antal Michels, parish priest of Mukachevo-Palanok, in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Mukachevo. Following the mass, the program continued next to the cathedral at St. Michael Chapel. After the introduction, Mr. Andras Kacsó, chairman of board of the Transcarpathian Franciscan Mission Foundation, took the floor to address the young attendees. Mr. Kacsó was invited to attend the meeting by the scholarship committee. In his speech, he pointed out the importance of searching God's will regarding our vocation. Everybody has the opportunity to find the right place and duty for themselves in the world, what they like to do, and what fulfills their lives.
Two university students - Tünde Tamáskó and Oksana Vasiljeva - told about their volunteer activity at the Pediatric Department of the Regional Hospital in Uzhgorod, where they go to visit orphans. Then Zsuzsanna Pápai, editor of the Roman Catholic periodical, Új Hajtás (New Offset), shared with the audience her volunteer experience in the Faith and Light community in Mukachevo. In the short break, the young participants had the opportunity to network with the invited speakers, the members of the committee as well as each other. During the small group discussions, they exchanged thoughts about talent, skill, and charisma and also about the ways of how to recognize those in ourselves.
Following the small group discussions, the attendees commemorated the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution and war of Liberation.
In the closing ceremony of the event, the new awardees were presented the scholarship award.
Szabolcs Bunda
Information on Grants Distributed by the Szülőföld (Hungarian Homeland) Fund
The Szülőföld (Hungarian Homeland) Fund contributed to the running expenses of the charitable institutions in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Munkacs with 20.45 million HUF over 1,5 years, between 2008.01.01-2009.07.01. We are grateful for the support. For detailed information about each program please read the chart below.
Without financial support from the Szülőföld (Hungarian Homeland) Fund these institutions could not be maintained as 85% of their running costs comes from applications and donations. We hope for a continued partnership of cooperation and we are thankful for all the support we have received so far.
Cultural, Religious, and Media Board, First Announcement, 2008:
| Institutions | Goal | Grant (HUF) |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Munkacs | Support for Diocesan Institutions and Programs | 2 000 000 |
| Caritas St. Martin Subcarpathian Regional Charitable Institution | Contribution to the running costs of the institution | 700 000 |
| Caritas St. Anthony of Padua Charitable Foundation | Contribution to the running costs of the kindergarten in Kobilecka Poljana | 1 000 000 |
| St. Michael Orphanage in Rativci | Contribution to kitchen equipment | 800 000 |
| Caritas Theodor Romzha Charitable Foundation | Contribution to the running costs of the kindergarten in Velikij Bichkiv | 800 000 |
| St. Joseph Caritas Charitable Foundation | Contribution to the running costs of the institution | 500 000 |
| St. George Parish in Uzhgorod | Contribution to the running costs of the soup kitchen for the needy | 800 000 |
| TOTAL | 6 600 000 |
Cultural, Religious, and Media Board, Second Announcement, 2008:
| Institution | Goal | Grant (HUF) |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Munkacs | Support for Diocesan Institutions and Programs | 1 000 000 |
| Caritas St. Stephen Foundation | Completion of the heating system installation in the reatreat house in Bustino | 400 000 |
| St. Stephen Lyceum with Specialization in IT and Foreign Languages | Contribution to the running costs of the Lyceum in 2009 | 1 000 000 |
| Caritas St. Martin Subcarpathian Regional Charitable Institution | Contribution to the running costs of the institution | 900 000 |
| Social Caritative Center in Vinogradovo | Contribution to the running costs of the institution | 300 000 |
| Caritas St. Anthony of Padua Foundation | Contribution to the running costs of the kindergarten in Kobilecka Poljana | 300 000 |
| St. George Parish in Uzhgorod | Contribution to the running costs of the soup kitchen for the needy | 450 000 |
| TOTAL | 4 350 000 |
Cultural, Religious, and Media Board, First Announcement, 2009:
| Institution | Goal | Grant (HUF) |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Munkacs | Support for Diocesan Institutions and Programs | 1 500 000 |
| Caritas St. Martin Subcarpathian Regional Charitable Institution | Contribution to the running costs of the institution | 650 000 |
| St. Stephen Lyceum with Specialization in IT and Foreign Languages | Contribution to the running costs of the Lyceum in 2009 | 2 000 000 |
| Caritas St. Anthony of Padua Foundation | Contribution to the running costs of the kindergarten in Kobilecka Poljana | 1 400 000 |
| Caritas Theodor Romzha Charitable Foundation | Contribution to the running costs of the kindergarten in Velikij Bichkiv | 1 350 000 |
| St. Anna Kindergarten in Solotvino | Contribution to the running costs of the kindergarten in Solotvino | 950 000 |
| St. George Parish in Uzhgorod | Contribution to the running costs of the soup kitchen in Uzhgorod | 550 000 |
| Caritas St. Elizabeth Charitable Foundation | Contribution to the running costs of the soup kitchen in Mukachevo | 600 000 |
| Caritas St. Stephen Foundation | Contribution to the running costs and partial renovation of the kindergarten in Bustino | 500 000 |
| TOTAL | 9 500 000 |
The Roman Catholic Church in Transcarpathia have got the following establishments and programs:
Children's homes of family type
1. Children's home of family type named after "St. Gabriel" in Velikij Bereznij. Here are 7 children. State supports are 75 %.
2. Children's home of family type named after "Queen of Peace" in Velikij Bereznij. Here are 10 children. State supports are 75 %. This home isn't stand immediately direction of Caritas but the foundation and the functioning go on under the sanction of bishop Antal Majnek.
3. Children's home of family type named after "Nary St. Philip" in Mukachevo. Here are 11 children, 3 of them are own. The state has been supporting the expenses of children in 75 % since beginning of 2006.
4. Children's home of family type named after "St. Francis" in Hust. Here are 12 children, 2 of them are own. The state has been supporting the expenses of children in 75% since 2006.
5. Children's homes of family type named after Family Lelekats in Rativtsi (near Uzhgorod). Here are 7 orphans. State supports are 75 %.
6. Children's homes of family type named Family Juhasz in Rativtsi (near Uzhgorod). Here are 8 orphans and 2 own children. State supports are 75 %.
7. Children's home of family type named after "St. Elizabeth" in Serednje. Here are 3 orphans. State supports are 75 %.
Secondary educational establishments
8. Catholic Lyceum named after "St. Steven" in Munkach - here are 50 young people from the whole Transcarpathian district. State supports are 16 %. Here are being built a gymnasium, a dining-hall and special classrooms.
Kindergartens
9. The kindergarten named after "St. Catherina"in Fanchika. Here are 62 children. 12 workers work here. 2,85 EUR/child/day The state support is 55 %.
10. The kindergarten named after "St. Francis" in Korolevo. Here are 40 children. 14 workers work here. 3,37 EUR/child/day. The state supports are 60 %.
11. The kindergarten named after "St. Joseph" in Vinogradovo. Here are 50 children. 12 workers work here. 2,60 EUR/child/day. The state supports are 60%.
12. The kindergarten named after "St. Elizabeth" in Bustino. Here are 42 children. 13 workers work here. 3,78 EUR/child/day. The state support is 0%.
13. The kindergarten named after "St. Anna" in Solotvino. Here are 45 children. 14 workers work here. 2,85 EUR/child/day. The state support is 0%.
14. The kindergarten named after "Romzha Theodore"in Velikij Bochkov. 10 workers work here. Here are 30 children. 2,9 EUR/child/day The state support is 0%.
15. The kindergarten named after"Paduai St. Anotny" in Kobileckaja Poljana. Here are 24 children. 9 workers work here. 4,52 EUR/child/day. The state support is 0 %.
16. The kindergarten in Akli. Here are 15 children. 7 workers work here. 2,46 EUR/child/day. The state supports are 60%.
17. The kindergarten in Jasigna. Here are 44 children. 9 workers work here. The state supports are 80%.
Catholic students' hostels
18. Catholic college named after "St. Gerald" for students of the National University in Uzhgorod. The numbers of the students are 56. The state support is 0%.
19. Catholic college named after "St. George" for students of the National University in Uzhgorod. The numbers of the students are 22 (only for boys). The state support is 0%.
20. Catholic college for students of the lyceum in Mukachevo. The numbers of the students are 22 (only for boys). The state support is 0%.
21. Catholic college for students of the lyceum in Mukachevo. The numbers of the students are 23 (only for girls). The state support is 0%.
22. Catholic college for students in Berehovo. The numbers of the students are 20 (only for girls). The state support is 0%.
Work with phisically and mentally handicapped people
23. Rehabilitative house named after "St. Theresa" in Vinogradovo. There are200 children yearly. The state supports are 20%.
24. "Faith and light" organization provide from the invalid children in Hust and Tjachiv. It's not stand under the immediate direction of the Caritas. The state support is 0%.
25. Rehabilitative centre in Hust. The building will be finished soon. The state support is 0%.
Kitchens free of charge (Kitchens for the poor )
26. Kitchen with free dinner in Uzhgorod. There are 80 dinners every week on three occasions. 1,06 EUR/person/lunch. The state support is 0%.
27. Kitchen with free dinner in Munkach. There are 80 dinners every day. 0,41 EUR/person/lunch. There are washed and sewed the dresses of poor people. The state support is 0%.
28. Kitchen with free dinner in Vinogradovo. There are 180 dinners every day. 0,77 EUR/person/lunch. the state support is 0%.
29. Kitchen with free dinner in Thachiv. There are 102 dinners every day (except summer time). 1,61 EUR/person/lunch. The state support is 0%.
30. Kitchen with free dinner in Svaljava. There are 16 dinners every day, the state support is 0%.
31. Kitchen with free dinner in Kobileckaja Poljana. There are 15 dinners every day (the cooking from the kindergarten's kitchen for the hunger children). 0,62 EUR/person/lunch. The state support is 0%.
32. Kitchen with free dinner in Viskovo. There are 60 dinners every day. 1,15 EUR/person/lunch. The state support is 0%.
Work with the Gipsies
33. School for gipsies in Viskovo. The state supports are 25%.
34. Pastorate between the gypsies - we teach religion for children and adults in Beregujfalu, Koncovo, Galoch, Homok and Minaj. Humanitarian aid. The state support is 0 %.
Fuel programmes
35. Program for provide the poor family with fuels in Munkach for 12 families.The state support is 0%.
36. Program for provide the poor family with fuels in Hust for 19 families. The state support is 0%.
37. Program for provide the poor family with fuels in Visk for 80 families. The state support is 0%.
38. Program for provide the poor family with fuels in Tyachiv for 52 families. The state support is 0%.
Food-supply programmes for Christmas and Easter
39. Charitable Christmas and Easter programs for poor families in Vinogradovo. The state support is 0%.
40. Charitable Christmas and Easter programs for poor families in Hust for 125 families. The state support is 0%.
41. Charitable Christmas and Easter programs for poor families in Tyachiv for 175 families. The state support is 0%.
42. Charitable Christmas and Easter programs for poor families in Uzhgorod for 140 families. The state support is 0%.
43. Charitable Christmas and Easter programs for poor families in Visk for 40 families. The state support is 0%.
Help to the elderly people
44.Old people's home in Pavsino. The state support is 0%.
Help to the addicted people
45. Help for those people who use drugs. We had invited the members of the Cenacolo community to found a house of community in Ukraine. We had approved a home for them and we are looking for them. For this time we send these boys, who use drugs, to another houses of the Cenacolo (Polland or other countries).
46. We are going to plan a new project in 2009 to help for those people who use drugs and alcohol.
Help to the sick people
47. Program aimed to support (give financial aid) the operations of the children coming from poor families. It started in November 2006. Since that time we supported 18 operations.
48.Helping medical program for the poor people in Mukachevo. The curing is free in the military hospital, and they operate those people who came with a recommendation of the Caritas. For these supplies the hospital get a medical humanitarian helps from the Caritas.
Help to some schools
49. Caritas named after "Nepomuki St. John" in Jaszinya. The Caritas provide from the teaching of the poor children.
50. Not a regular help for the following schools: Munkach, Fornos, Barkasovo, Hust, Rahiv, Jaszinya.
Other
51. Food program for 165 poor families in Tjachiv, Okruhla and Bustino. The state support is 0%.
52. Complex for summer camps in Okruhla. The Caritas give a constant help to the complete renovation and the building of the complex. The state support is 0%.
53. Caritas named after "St. Augustine" is provide from the poor people. The state support is 0%.
54. Helping for the state's home for orphans in Perehresztja. The numbers of children are 107. It hasn't got a regular help from the Caritas. The state supports are 80 %.
55. Scholarship program for talanted Transcarpathian catholic students who are badly off and who study in Ukrainian higher educational establishments.Our announcement appears half-yearly. Last time we supported 33 students.
56. We are taking part in two EU projects in a Ukraine-Romania program in which Caritas Satu Mare is the main transacting member of the application. The one-year programmes are connected with phisically handicapped people and the cooperation between kindergartens.
57. We have started the rebuilding of a house being in bad condition which is situated in Mukachevo, Vatutyina street. We are planning to build here store rooms, rooms where we can distribute clothes, surgery room, office rooms, rooms for the guests.
58. Complex for summer camps in Bustino. The Caritas give a constant help to the complete renovation and the building of the complex. The state support is 0%.
59.Social Centrum in Uzhgorod (orphans, students' hostel, poor children )
The following organizations and programs (which concern to these points) are standing under the directly direction of the local Caritas: 1,4,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 23, 24,25,26,27,29,31,32,33, 35,36,37,38,39,40,41,43,49,51,52,53,56
The following organizations and programs (which concern to these points): 3,5,6,8, 20,21, 45,46,47,48,50,54,55,56,57 are standing under the directly direction of the Diocesan Caritas.
Those organizations and programs which are standing under the directly direction of the parish, these are the following: 7,22,28,30,34,42,44
Mukachevo, 2008. December
Collected by Ferenc Feher,
director of Saint Martin Caritas Transcarpathia
C O N T A C T
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UCRAINE 89600
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Email: munkacs[@]caritas-transcarpathia.com
General Information about Caritas Transcarpathia
Caritas Transcarpathia started to operate in 1993. Today it is a network of non-governmental organizations in Transcarpathia aiming to help people in the region who struggle with social and financial difficulties. Our organization belongs to the local Roman Catholic Church, which is based on the traditional Christian foundations of charity work and care for the needy. However, help is not only provided for members of the Catholic Church. The organization assists everybody in need regardless of religious views or national background.
The work of Caritas Transcarpatia was started after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Ukraine lost most of its commercial connections following the declaration of independence. As a consequence, factories and plants were closed down, and unemployment increased significantly. As humanitarian aid started to pour in from Western Europe, an organization was needed to be established to administer the aid and ensure fair distribution.
However, it soon became apparent that foreign aid would not offer longterm solution to the social problems in the region. With the provision of mere financial support, Caritas would not contribute to human development on the long run. Therefore, Caritas started projects that aim at making people more independent and financially stable thus helping them live a more dignified life.
Our organization is looking for solutions to the most striking social problems working with various groups of people (addicted, elderly, sick, phisically and mentally disabled, street children, and families struggling with social problems).
In the past few years, Caritas has realized several social projects with the help of foreign partners. Our organization is not only in need of financial help. We would not have been able to launch and successfully run our projects without the professional support of our foreign partners, who shared their experience, their know-how with us thus contributing to our work and improvement.
The current goal of Caritas Transcarpathia is to become more independent in its work, although this process is a slow and lengthy one due to Ukraine's bad economic conditions, corrupt administration as well as widespread poverty. In this transition period, we need much support.
Under construction...
The Diocesan "St. Martin" Caritas (central office) and review its activity and function
The "St. Martin Caritas" is a charitable foundation in the Transcarpathia County. It was founded by the Transkarpatien Roman Catholic Apostolic Regency in the year 1999. In order to beside the central co-ordination of the programs to accommodate the local Caritas activities which were founded by the Roman Catholic parishes. The purpose of the Diocesan Caritas to alleviate the necessity of the body and the soul. For this reason the "St. Martin Caritas" to help the local caritas works as follows:
- help to find the money that necessary to the programs.
- help to stream the information.
- help the effective structure with strategy plans and co-ordination works
- manage a representative work and build connections
- arrange projects which stand outside of the range of the local caritas
- In specific cases render help to get over difficulties to the range of possibility.
12 local caritas working in Transcarpathia which are make working free kitchens, kindergartens, children's homes, and rehabilitative centers. In addition have five parishes which are belong to 6 charitable establishments.
The central co-ordination programs are the follows:
- In the first days of the flood in 1998 and 2001 the flood victims got a bread and mineral water than urgent relief, later they got 500 food packets every day. 23 new houses were finished during the reconstruction program.
- We carried out a program in opposition to spread tuberculosis in the mountainory district of Okormezo during the 2001-2002 years.
- The Catholic Lyceum was founded in 2001 in Munkach.
- The Nary St. Philip children s home was opened in 2002 in Munkach.
- The "Providence House" children's complex has been beginning to build in Rat since 1993 (district of Uzhgorod). The first house which makes for the orphans was opened in November. It's one part of the children's complex.
- We have been working on a program which makes for help of the poor gypsy people and trend for the education since 2005.
- We have been occupying with the help of the addicted people since 2006.
- We have been helping the operation of the poor children since 2006.
If you want to assist out work with generous donations, even by marking a particular project, you can do this by remitting the amount to the undermentioned numbers of account.
If you wish to assist us with other kinds of donation or if you will have any questions concerning this, you can immediately get in touch with the central office through our connections which you can find in the "conact" item.
BANK ACCOUNT:
BENEFICIARY ZAKARPATSKIY OBLASZNIY BLAHODIYNIY FOND
"KARITAS SVIATOHO MARTINA"
BENEFICIARY ADRESS: MUKATCHEVO, UKRAINE
ACCOUNT: 26004018154159
BENEFICIARY BANK: THE STATE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UKRAINE
BANK ADRESS: UZHGOROD BRANCH, UKRAINE
SWIFT CODE: EXBSUAUX UZH
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