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Budapest, December 18, 2006 14:00

The employees of the Magyar Telekom Group have offered their Christmas gift money to the "Hope Public Benefit Foundation for Children With Leukemia."

For the first time this year the employees of the Magyar Telekom Group decided through Internet voting to which of the eligible charitable civil associations they would offer the 3 million HUF which the company would have spent on Christmas gifts for its employees. In the vote 43 per cent of the several thousand employees opted in favor of the "Hope Public Benefit Foundation for Children With Leukemia".

The "Hope Public Benefit Foundation for Children With Leukemia" has been operating since 1999 and it is currently the most significant organization outside Budapest supporting the treatment of children with cancer. The foundation, seated in Debrecen, has connections with all the major medical institutions in the country which have wards for treating children with cancer. Their activities focus on buying medical equipment for the hospitals and giving financial assistance to the families.