George Pataki-initiated Hungarian Birthright Program Participants Return to the USA and Canada

Enriched of their ancestors’ cultural identity 15 American and Canadian students of Hungarian heritage are eager to join their home communities as the 3rd year of the ReConnect Hungary – Hungarian Birthright Program concludes. The program is a public-private partnership between the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation of New York and the Hungarian Government.

During the 2-weeks long journey the group, aside from the great touristic and culinary joys the country can offer, met Hungarian decision makers (Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources, Árpád Potápi, State Secretary for Hungarian Communities Abroad), designers and startuppers at Budapest’s Design Terminal, Gábor Bojár of Graphisoft and Aquincum Institute of Technology, visited a young Hungarian community in Subotica, Serbia and experienced firsthand the future of Hungary’s farming culture at the biofarm of Matthew Hayes, professor of the Szent István University.

Finding out about the history of the times of their ancestors, the group visited the House of Terror Museum and the Holocaust Memorial Center.