The Blood Knights won this year's Highlights of Hungary's main prize

This year, too, the public has been recognized by an organization whose members help those in need, whether they are on a motorbike or in a car, to deliver blood to where it is needed most. The Blood Knights were nominated for this year by Ambassador Anna Nagy, Founder and Head of the Single Parent Center.

"As the only voluntary emergency blood supply community in Hungary, their mission is to have the blood of life at the right time in the right place throughout the country, every day of the year," Anna Nagy praises. As he points out, the Blood Knights, which started in the Central Hungary region in 2020, were extended to Eastern Hungary in 2021.

According to the tradition of Highlights of Hungary, there are no categories, the ambassadors were free to nominate a person, organization or even a work if they considered it to be in line with the guiding principle of the initiative, "Hass, create, enrich!" with the idea.

Out of the fifty candidates, the Bird Atlas of the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Association received the most votes after the Blood Knights, and the Szeklerland Legendary took the third place on the podium.

In addition to the audience award, an Ambassador Award was presented this year. The ambassadors of Highlights of Hungary have decided to award the Tulipán Orphanage, which is worth HUF 2 million, among the stories on the list.
As he recalls, 20 years ago, the Reformed pastor József Barta established the Tulip Children's Home in 2001, where hundreds of severely abused children have since been housed and cared for in a loving and supportive environment.

"I would like to highlight the excellent human performance in the sense that József Bartha and his family do it without financial support from the mainland and Romania, so they were forced to find a long-term solution to ensure maintenance," writes Bagossy, Ambassador of Bagossy. Founder of Brothers Company.

As he writes, the founders of the institution completed an investment in a loan in Holtmaros this year, where they built a nursing home from which they can stably finance the orphanage. Completing the investment and the business model behind it can provide many other social institutions with an example of how to run a nonprofit on their own, the commendation says.

Four special awards were presented: the editor of the Index, the painter Anna Pakosz, the KPMG Special Award for Sustainability, the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Association, while the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Award was won by the Szeklerland Legendary Civil Initiative. Donát Fehérvári, a high school student, was awarded the Family-Friendly Special Prize of the Deputy State Secretariat for Youth of the Prime Minister's Office, whose idea is to create a Lego kit.

(Source: autokalauz.co.hu; MTI | Image: pixabay.com)