On Sunday, May 13, we opened our "Get to Know the World!" photo exhibition in the National Memorial Park in Nagygéc. The event was attended by Representative Sándor Kovács, and the opening ceremony included a service led by Kont Szalay, the archpriest, at the Church of Preservation.
Our association took part in the May Day festival in Kisvárda. This year, in the spirit of recycling, we displayed furniture made from used car tyres, handcrafted by members of our organisation.
Our association participated in the closing day of the "Create a Community!" program organized by FIVEK - Youth for the City Association Kisvárda over the weekend. At the event, young people could join various workshops, such as on the topic of environmental protection, where Nikoletta Bakosné and Róbert Bakos, representing our association, held a...
The next stop of our "Get to Know the World!" photo exhibition is Záhony. At the opening ceremony, László Helmeczi, Mayor of Záhony, delivered a welcome speech, and the exhibition was officially opened by our Association's President, Dr. Gergő Péter Juhász.
For the fourth time, we opened our "Get to Know the World!" photo exhibition – this time in the town of Mátészalka. As mentioned in our previous articles, a unique aspect of this exhibition is that the photos, which depict everyday life in Malawi, were taken by orphaned African children.
This weekend marked the next stop of our "Get to Know the World!" travelling exhibition. We had the opportunity to present our photo exhibition in Budapest at the Africa Expo, organised by the Kultúrafrika Foundation, as part of the national Travel Exhibition.
Toroskáposzta was prepared "Planetrise style" at the "Together Again with You" Szatmár Traditional Pig Slaughter Festival in Géberjén. On the evening of Friday, 23 February, several members of our Association took part in a dinner in Géberjén, marking the opening of a culinary event.
As previously mentioned, our Africa exhibition has gone on tour, and this week we opened the event in Fehérgyarmat.
Our association's guest, Miss Malawi, Cecilia Khofi, the beauty queen of Malawi in Africa, gave several presentations this week as part of our "Discover the World!" project in some primary and secondary schools in our county (Kisvárda, Győrtelek, Fehérgyarmat, Mátészalka, Géberjén), which you can read more about in our previous article.
Several members of our Association have spent varying lengths of time in different African countries – some doing volunteer work, others conducting research, and some coordinating missions or various projects.
The Planetrise Association visited Visk in Transcarpathia yesterday, where we had the opportunity to see the pavilions donated by our members in action, which were donated back in November. The mayor of the town, Jaroszláv Hajovics, Ida Ötvös, president of the Green Rural Tourism Association, and many others honoured us with their presence.
This year, we also participated in the Christmas Cavalcade in Kisvárda. On the opening day, our association joined the event alongside the Kisvárda Rotary Club.
Dr. Péter Gergő Juhász, the President of our Association, participated as a trainer in an agricultural advisory training program in Uganda. The program was organized by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, Szent István University, and the Hungarian Africa Society. Péter had the following to say about the training:
The president of our association, Dr. Péter Gergő Juhász, held talks with the Hungarian Trade and Cultural Centre (HTCC) Uganda branch. The head of the centre, Balázs Lukács, introduced the farm owned by their company, which also serves as an agricultural demonstration site.
We visited the Green Rural Tourism Association in Visk again! During our meeting last week, we were able to take further steps towards successful collaboration. Our association donated three wooden Advent pavilions to the organisation, which were constructed by two of our members, Tamás Miskolczi and Ottó Szilágyi, in the courtyard of the Visk...
The Planetrise Tree Planting Program continues in Malawi. As mentioned in our previous articles, one of our members, Csaba Szeremley, is currently in the African country. During his trip, he recently returned as the coordinator of the XVII Medical Mission of the Hungarian Africa Society.
Recently, our members, Péter Gergő Juhász and Csaba Szeremley, visited Green Circle in Hajdúböszörmény. We had the opportunity to discuss many shared topics with their leader, Antal Molnár, such as joint water-based camping programs, coordinating environmentally conscious initiatives, and exploring interactive marketing opportunities together.
The members of the 17th medical mission of the Hungarian Africa Society (Magyar Afrika Társaság) have arrived in Malawi, settled into the house of the Hungarian Cultural and Commercial Centre (HTCC), and have already begun their work. This time, neurosurgeons from the National Clinical Neuroscience Institute have come to Africa. Csaba Szeremley, a...
Recently, the president of our association, Péter Gergő Juhász, and our member, Csaba Szeremley, visited the Aggtelek National Park Directorate, where they were welcomed by environmental education officers Enikő Piller and Judit Tóth. Enikő gave Peter and Csaba a tour of the Directorate's base in Jósvafő. During the visit, we had the opportunity to...
I arrived home from Malawi last week. However, the last few days were anything but boring. Quite the opposite! Together with my eleven photography students, we took countless photos both in the villages and at the school. Among the hundreds of pictures, some truly remarkable ones were taken, from which I selected 28—2 or 3 photos from each student....
During our colleague's (Ilona Asztalos) six-week trip to Malawi, our Association once again donated trees to the Jacaranda School. As a closing event of the mission, Ilona successfully planted 102 trees together with the school's students and teachers, as well as Mr. Luc Deschamps, the school's director. The children were once again very...
