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Budapest, November 2, 2009 11:00

Anyone sending an SMS or calling Telekom's Donation Line at 1788 in November and December 2009 will support the Káva Cultural Workshop Association.

The Káva Cultural Workshop, an association founded in 1996, is a non-profit organization delivering public services in the areas of arts and pedagogy. Their activity combines theatre arts and pedagogy. The sessions, in which theatre education alternates with involving children in action, collective thinking and play, help children to actually live their experiences and the incidents of their lives and work themselves through these together and jointly with the instructors. Among others, Káva focuses on issues of aggression, school bullying, xenophobia, the situation of families, freedom and democracy.

Using the expertise of actors and drama teachers, Káva aims to help youngsters to become able to tell the difference between a theatre performance and the motivations of the players in the stories of their life, as well as between their own feelings and the prejudices instilled in them from outside, and so shatter some of the faulty stereotypes that may have already taken root in them. Thanks to the theatre education method all this is achieved in a non-didactic way and young people are able to experience the roles on both sides. This improves their empathic skills and also encourages them to examine the same question from different perspectives.

Káva's programs offer the joy of discovery through which young people can learn something important about themselves and the world around them. Káva's actor and drama teachers are convinced that by combining theatre and drama pedagogy it is possible to examine the issues mentioned from various perspectives and experience them personally. The association relies on Hungarian and international funding to work with and for children. The sessions are free of charge for schools.

As a leading infocommunication service provider Magyar Telekom considers it important to support the advancement of education in Hungary.

The service known by the slogan "1788 - The people's call number" has been operating for seven years as Telekom's donation line that can be accessed from both fixed line and mobile networks. The charge for a call or SMS is HUF 100, which is tax-free (with the exception of calls originating from Domino prepaid cards). The full fee of the calls received in these two months will be the callers' donation to the Káva Cultural Workshop Association, which will use it to cover costs of the drama education sessions.

About Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom is Hungary's biggest provider of telecom services. It provides a full range of telecommunications and infocommunications (ICT) services including fixed line and mobile telephony, data transmission and non-voice as well as IT and systems integration services. The business activities of Magyar Telekom are managed by two business units: Consumer services (the home-related services brand T-Home and the mobile communications brand T-Mobile) and Business services (T-Systems brand). Magyar Telekom is the majority owner of Makedonski Telekom, the leading fixed line and mobile operator in Macedonia and it holds a majority stake in Crnogorski Telekom, the leading telecommunications operator in Montenegro. Magyar Telekom's majority shareholder (59.21%) is MagyarCom Holding GmbH, fully owned by Deutsche Telekom AG.
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