Press News

Budapest, September 7, 2004

Axelero, like last year, again donated HUF 1.5 million to the Hungarian Association of the International Children Safety Service that is aiding disadvantaged children. This donation includes provision of broadband Internet connection to the center and pediatric clinic in Budapest and the organization's internet club in Pécs that carries on public benefit activities.

The International Children Safety Service, whose major goal is to improve the living circumstances of physically and mentally handicapped, orphan and other needy children and to lay the foundations for their future, operates thirteen computers in its Budapest office and four in its clinic treating hyperactive children. The broadband Internet connection provided by Axelero Internet will facilitate the daily work of the association's staff to help them among others in keeping contact with partner organizations and regional offices and monitoring competitions.

The aid provided by Axelero also covers the computer club operated by the Children Safety Service in Pécs: in the club each month two hundred 12 - 18-year-old children can use twelve computers free of charge. In school time the students come with their teachers to the club to obtain information on the web about possibilities for further education or seek ideas for an approaching class excursion, after school time the possibility of free Internet access attracts children living nearby and offers them useful occupation.

"We are happy that for the second year Axelero is behind us and helps us with the achievement of our goals. Our computer club in Pécs has quickly become very popular with underprivileged children in which the experience of broadband internet access played a great role, in addition to the family atmosphere," said Péter Edvi, President of the International Children Safety Service. "The children coming to the club often form real friendships thanks to the community-creating force of the web - not only in the virtual sense."