Messzelátó Egyesület

The purpose of my Future Capital Project was the promotion of composting in some Hungarian schools.

Since my arrival, I gathered my ideas about this topic; Found the schools in Budapest; Thought about the playful tools to teach and define what it will be important to create... And I found Komposzt Karcsi!!

He saw the light of home-made candle, and came to check if we well-behaved during the all year ! Who ? How to say.... Никола in Bulgarian, Nickolas in English or Mikulás, in Hungarian. Or Santa Claus. He didn't forget the 4th of Dembinszky utca. His colleague neither ! Lucifer or Krampusz.

From the 8th to the 9th of December another event to place in Hainburg (near Vienna) to focus the attention on climate change. For two days there was a camp, which wanted to inform the public about the dangers of the current processes in nature and the connections between climate change and street building, destroying nature parks and so on.

Our association’s little task-force – Sanya, Csaba, Helle, Zita and Cecile – participated in a basket-making course in the Humusz house. We started to create our masterpieces with great enthusiasm. Each of us made it for various purposes: to bring it home as a unique, self-made Hungaricum from abroad, to give it as a present to the family or to make this pleasure purely for him/herself.

Thanks to 68 green organizations – inlcuding Messzelato Association – a new ombudsman position was accepted by the Hungarian parliament on November 26. The institution of the new generations parliamentary ombudsman is a significant step at Europan and international level, because similar position is unlikely to exist in any other nations. The – in the very close future elected – ombudsman has to act on the behalf of future generations, the environment and sustainability.

Yesterday evening at the Central European University in Budapest an interesting event took place: An experienced Greenpeace campaigner and activist presented the basics of Greenpeace's campaigns.

We woke for a cold, rainy day in the morning of November 9. And this only got colder moreover wetter, especially when we had been holding the banner of the Climate protection for a longer period in front of the Parliament at the Kossuth square.

Here the Hungarian Conservationist Association and its partner organizations - along with Messzelato Association - built the map of Hungary out of wooden mosaics. The "country" was constructed to draw the attention to the urgent steps against the climate change.

2007-ben ismét útjára indult a Buenos Aires - Észak-Argentína járat. A fedélzeten tizenhárman vannak: gyermekorvosok, fogorvosok – köztük a magyar származású Pablo Bartos (Bartos Pál) doktor úr –, ápolók és szociális munkások, mind önkéntesek. Csekély fizetést csak a velük utazó műszaki szakember és a szakács kap.

The 15th of October was the day of the Compost building for Messzelátó Egyesület!

We went to an eco-school in Békásmegyer with Ági and the other volunteers of Messzelátó Egyesület (Marlene and Benjamin from France, Helle from Estonia and David from Portugal) to build three compost bins: one in a wooden frame and the two others in grid frames. We built the compost bins with the help of the 17-year-old children of the school. They were learning French, so they could improve a bit this language during this building session.

The trip: I took the plane Budapest-Istanbul on Sunday morning; the trip only took around 1.4 hours. We spent all the afternoon in Istanbul but I didn’t see any of the city monuments only people in the streets showing their support to the attack of Turkish army to PKK positions on the east of the country. It was also interesting to see so many big flags everywhere. At night we took the 12 hours bus to Antalya; we crossed the entire Anatolian peninsula from near the Black Sea till near the Mediterranean Sea. Before we took the final bus to Olympus, our final destination, we stayed all the afternoon in Antalya; we did a little bit of sightseeing, admiring the old town, the beautiful landscape of mountains combined with the very beautiful sea. Here we also saw people demonstrating the support to the Turkish government. We arrived in Olympus in the middle of the night and with no notion where I was because I had slept the entire trip.