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Budapest, March 2, 2011 14:00

In March and April 2011, those calling or sending SMS to the Telekom Donation Line 1788, will contribute to the Gézengúz Foundation. As the country's leading telecommunications provider, Magyar Telekom deems it important to support the improvement of healthcare in Hungary and the development of services in this area, including the healing of children.

In Hungary alone 7,000 premature babies are born in a year. After hospital treatment they can find help at the Gézengúz Foundation, where skilled professionals work using efficient therapy methods, also with the involvement of the parents of these children.

The non-profit organization with a history of over 20 years has set the target of providing complex diagnostic care and therapy based on a holistic approach to children with nervous system injuries and premature babies. The foundation uses the most advanced achievements of medical sciences, psychology and pedagogy in their work. Each family affected is attended to by a team of several professionals (children's neurologist, radiologist, psychologist, remedial teacher, physiotherapist, hydro therapist and nurse). Various treatments are administered for groups of children or individually. The professionals at the Foundation also provide a complex remedial development and day-care for children with multiple injuries.


The Gézengúz Foundation has been offering help in the recent years in cooperation with the available local health systems in several parts of the country. The key target of the Foundation is to provide its professional activity in parts of the country that are not provided for as yet. Currently the Foundation extends high level health, psychological, pedagogic and social help to thousands of families in Budapest-Békásmegyer, Budakalász, Győr and Salgótarján. The Foundation secures the funds for its operations from donations by companies and private individuals, sponsoring, offers and from grants won through applications. Further information about the Foundation and its activities is available at the www.gezenguz.hu website.


The Telekom Donation Line, also known for its slogan "1788 - the human line", has been accessible for calls initiated from Magyar Telekom's fixed line and mobile networks for the past eight years. The fee for a call or an SMS message is HUF 100 which is free of VAT (with the exception of calls initiated with Domino top-up cards). The total amount collected as a result of the calls initiated during March and April 2011 will go, as the callers' donation, to the Gézengúz Foundation, where the money will serve the establishment of a new center to enable the healing of 1,500 children a year.