It’s good to be good – HUF 50 million raised so far from Digital Civic Circles merchandise

It started as a joke, it turned into help: so far, HUF 50 million has been raised from doodled T-shirts and other Digital Civic Circles merchandise which we will donate to the KEGYES Foundation in Transcarpathia (Ukraine) as part of the public service media's 'It's good to be good' campaign, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote on his Facebook account on Sunday afternoon.

If a country has a big heart, the Prime Minister wrote, starting his post, adding that it is not over yet. Today, a sweater with doodles is still up for auction. "Please place your bets because every forint will serve a good cause," Mr Orbán wrote.

There is a video attached to the post, showing the Prime Minister drawing a flower on a Master Plan sweater offered for auction.

"The ones that I'm signing now are autographed, and there are thirty-something of them. You can buy these, too. It's like a premium-rate telephone call," the Prime Minister observed.

In the video, show host Philip Rákay presents a symbolic cheque for HUF 50 million which the KEGYES Foundation will receive from the Digital Civic Circles. "This is not small fry," he observed, adding that this is a serious sum raised from Master Plan sweaters and T-shirts.

Mr Orbán stressed that creating something out of nothing was a great thing. "Raising 50 million from nothing is something," he said.

Show hostess Zsófi Szabó added that the auction for the sweater was still on, meaning that it was not yet included in the sum.