This is a travel report by the two friends Anne & Elfi, who have not been able to travel together for a long time because it was not possible due to the pandemic and time constraints. That’s why we were so happy to finally be able to travel together again for Eeva Huber’s work to Alba Iulia, Romania. The weather… Read more →
The trip was accompanied by Hannu Ylitalo, Andrei Roth and Päivi Taskinen for one day. This is the account of a trip by Finnish friends of Eeva Huber’s work to Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and to Oradea, which is in Romania. We were eight travelers, four from Hämeenlinna, two from Vaasa, one from Liperi and one from Parkano. The… Read more →
Early Friday morning, November 4th, 2022, I met my wife Anita and Hannu Ylitalo in Budapest. After breakfast we drove to Romania in a van from HELP and HOPE. We arrived in Satu Mare just before noon. The former president of the Jewish community, Decsei Nicolae, welcomed us with his team in front of one of the city center hotels.… Read more →
At the end of October 2022, Leena Hakala and Anne Laine came to Vienna for a Hanukkah workshop. These two hardworking volunteers put together sixty attractive gift bags for the Jewish community of Rădăuți in eastern Romania. We also bought groceries for Ukraine. Leena and Anne report on their workshop experiences below: “When we first planned the Hanukkah gift packs… Read more →
At the beginning of September, I managed to combine a business trip with an aid transport to Oradea. Thanks to the HELP and HOPE team and a group of friends, we received a significant amount of clothes and shoes. Groceries such as flour, macaroni, sugar, coffee, tea, oil and chocolate were bought in a Viennese wholesale shop. Of course, hygiene… Read more →
To keep it that way, we need a new transporter with which we can continue to bring donations and relief supplies to Ukraine. The war is not over yet, many already lost their lives and many had to flee. The cold winter, the dysfunctional energy infrastructure and poor supply put people in need. They urgently need warm clothes, sleeping bags,… Read more →
Anne Ylitalo and Anita Pylvänäinen-Kröger brought the next busload of relief supplies to the organization People to People in Oradea. We learned from Nicu Gal how much the field of activity of his organization p2p has been expanded through the work for people who have fled from the Ukraine and how urgently aid supplies are now constantly needed. Anne and… Read more →
For many years, HILFE und HOFFNUNG has been supporting the Romanian children’s charity people2people (www.people2people.ro) in Oradea (formerly Großwardein, also called the “Gateway to Transylvania” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradea). This city is 500 km from Vienna and 250 km from Budapest, on the Romanian border with Hungary. The head of people2people Nicu Gal recently picked up the relief supplies himself in Vienna.… Read more →
