Press News

Budapest, May 27, 2008

This year each weekend from May 31 to July 6, T-Com Children’s Island will await children and their parents for the seventh time with a fairytale park, craft activities, games, performances and sports programs. T-Com, with the Nonprofit Information and Education Center Foundation (NIOK), helps those who could not afford to make the long trip to visit the Children’s Island. It has arranged for the travel of hundreds of children, calling for applications from organizations caring for disadvantaged children.

Each weekend for more than a month with T-Com sponsorship Hajógyári (Shipyard) Island in Budapest will be converted into a large outdoor playground where children of various ages can select from the widest offerings available in Hungary. This year too, T-Com will construct a Fairytale Park where children can meet their favorite fairytale heroes in playful tests while acting themselves. Continuously updated information about the T-Com Children’s Island is available on the website www.sziget.hu/gyereksziget . Admission to the event is free, bicycle deposits and left-luggage services are available free of charge.

T-Com has also thought of those who could not afford to make the long trip to visit the Children’s Island so, with the involvement of the Nonprofit Information and Education Center Foundation (NIOK), they called for applications from organizations and institutions caring for underprivileged children living outside Budapest. The objective was to enable children who could not participate in the programs due to their social situation to visit the Children’s Island. As a result of the competition T-Com will offer 35-seat buses to the 12 winning organizations to bring children to the venue of the event and naturally to take them back home after the programs. On arrival the children will receive a snack package and at the end of the day can return home with many experiences and small gifts.