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Baptist Aid participated in two larger scale charity programmes prior to the Easter season.

Crew members of the Hungarian Baptist Aid arrived in Tokyo early this morning (on March 12th, 2011).

BWAid Rescue 24 volunteers hurry to the scene of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to join local Baptist workers in their rescue efforts. Hungarian Baptist Aid CEO Dr. Bela Szilagyi and rescue commander Laszlo Pavelcze responded to the request of the Baptist Convention of Japan.

Director-general of Hungarian Baptist Aid Dr. Bela Szilagyi, and emergency management director, Laszlo Pavelcze also left for the disaster-beaten Japan to help the victims.

The Malév Hungarian Airlines flight carrying Hungarians and citizens of other European countries trapped in Libya touched down at Budapest Airport Sunday evening.

National Help Line in collaboration with the Hungarian Baptist Aid, Hungarian Maltese Charity Service, Catholic Caritas and the Hungarian Interchurch Aid, bought a mini-bus to the municipality of Devecser.

Hungarian Baptist Aid organised a hot food delivery from the 21th till the 23th of December in Kőbánya (X. district of Budapest).

Shoeboxes have been brought to the collecting poin of the HBAid even today although „shoebox project” has been finished. 22.000 shoesboxes arrived from all over the country. The most of it, 10.500 were collected at the big shoebox on the Western square, Budapest.

The hotel Le Meridien organised a special dinner for homeless people living in the homeless shelter of HBAid.

Christmas gifts and aids have been delivered on the 17th of December in Devecser.