Hunter uses skills to help hungry refugees

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A Hungarian hunter is using his tradition of outdoor cooking to provide desperately needed hot meals to Ukrainian refugees arriving at the Hungarian border.
Underneath a temporary canopy next to the train station in the border town of Zahony, Tamas Marghescu and his wife, Ilona, stir large cauldrons of traditional Hungarian meat stew in preparation for the hundreds of refugees from Ukraine soon to arrive by train.
As an outdoorsman and the Hungary director for the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation, Tamas said that, for him, cooking outdoors is a tradition that is well-suited to the needs of refugees arriving in Hungary.
Many will have travelled for days toward safety and stood for hours in the cold at the border.
Both Tamas and Ilona said they feel a responsibility to help those that have been forced from their homes by war.
Ilona's parents fled Hungary for Australia during the second world war, while Marghescu's family twice fled Soviet domination in the country – once after the war in 1948, and again after the brutal Soviet repression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Tamas says his organization has set up similar outdoor kitchens at the Polish, Slovakian and Romanian borders with Ukraine.

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