Nov 6, 2013

How much wood can a …. father buy in Uszka?

The little village of Uszka, lying next to the Ukrainian-hungarian border, receives 1 million forint (3600 EUR) , to help 100 of the 145 families unable to buy the wood for the cold winter days, as they make no income at all in the half of the families, 

after what István Sértő-Radics, the mayor who is at the same time the family doctor of the village told to Kelet-Magyarország, a regional paper. Among the 229 locations in Szabolcs- Szatmár-Bereg county in Eastern Hungary 117 share an amount of nearly half a milliard HUF, approx. 170.000 EUR to support the purchase of firewood this winter. That amount is the approx. the fifth of the support 1760 locations can share this winter in Hungary. 10% of the 1760 place are located in this country.

source: MTI, the Hungarian news agency