Arriving from Ukraine to attend the event in Hungary was a team of children under an international social project known as “Children’s Football for Peace”. The project calls for solidarity in effecting peace, while also working to popularise a healthy lifestyle among young people in general.

The match came about following the construction of a playground for the children of Volnovakha, a project aided and financed by the “Life Without Fear” Foundation. Hungarian singer Joci Pápai, who had previously attended the official presentation of the project funds at the Embassy of Ukraine to Hungary, felt that it would be a great honour to meet personally with the children, who greeted him with considerable excitement. It was a real pleasure for Pápai to see the enthusiastic young players of the sport he had so loved to play as a child. Though unfortunately, a serious injury had prevented him from making a real career for himself in football, he has remained a fan of this exciting sport up to the present day.

The children had already visited Budapest in January of the same year as part of the international project “Children Want Peace”. It was in view of both the introductory meeting in January, and a budding Hungarian solidarity in the matter of support for Eastern Ukrainian children, that Hungarian businessman Zoltán Horváth launched his fund-raising drive toward the construction of a modern, European-standard children’s playground in Volnovakha.

On 4 July 2017, the businessman, in the presence of Joci Pápai, presented Lyubov Nepop, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Hungary, with a certificate for a total of 7,070,000 forints in raised donations at the Embassy of Ukraine to Hungary. Read more about the initiative HERE.

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