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Technical School of Subotica

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Red Cross in Subotica

Local Government of Bajsa

Moonlight Club 4

Kizúr István Primary School, Subotica

Moonlight Club 5

Jovan Mikić Primary School, Subotica

Moonlight Club 6

Gróf Széchényi István Primary School,Subotica

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Kety Love

11 April 2008

Dezso,

Thank you and Moonlight club very much for the lovely picture I was
given by the young man. Here you can see I took the picture on a tour of
Washington, DC. I took it with me to the White House! You can see it's a
very lovely spring here.
Thanks for this wonderful picture....

Warmly, Katy

Csilla & co.

Subotica,
15 October 2007.

Dear Dezso and Evi,

Congratulations on the remarkable achievement! This is one of those rare occasions when hard work produces the desired result. I think this decision is absolutely justified and I was also happy to read the lines of the letter raising hope for the future too. Árpád sometimes, in his week moments, tells the prominent members of our pack of dogs: ‘”You don’t even know how lucky you are!” – and I think we can tell the same about the Moonlight children. Not many people care about stray dogs, and not many about stray children either, especially with so much selflessness and steadfastness. We wish you all the best!

Kind regards,

Csilla & co.

Dr. Ferenc Kovács,
Szentendre,

10 October, 2007.

Dear Dezso,

I apologize for not writing to you for so long, but for the basketball team of Szentendre the past six months were extremely busy. However, from time to time I read the website of the Moonlight Club, and I was happy to see that stunning development you underwent recently. Night sport for youth really became a serious movement in Subotica now, thanks to your persistent work, and your great sense of strategy and diplomacy! Congratulations!
I presume you also think back with a smile on your face to the first club nights, when you were counting the children nervously and wondering how many of them would turn up? It has been now undoubtedly proven true that there is a real need for sensible free time activities and kind words among children, and your “network” by now almost covers the whole town! I think the involvement of the Teacher Training Faculty was a great idea, especially since this is also a great opportunity for the students to gain professional experience. I would also like to congratulate Andrija Romić, since I feel he also had a significant share in these results by supporting night sport for youth in these poor times. I am sorry I couldn't come with Péter Jakab to Subotica – my excuse is that our adolescent basketball team was playing in the finals In Budaörs that day, and my son Áron is also a member of the team, so I went to cheer for them!

Best wishes,

Feri

Sonja Licht
22 June, 2007

Dear Mr Kiš,

Thank you for your kind letter. I am also very happy to have had the chance to participate in this great event this year again. I am proud of everyone who engage in such notable work in the field of civil initiatives. Let me thank you this time for the “Moonlight” and all you are doing for those children for whom society barely does anything otherwise, and still marvel that they appear in the crime news.
I wish you all the best in your private life as well as in our common work with which we wish to make our country more humane and more acceptable for the people living in it.

Kind regards,

Sonja Licht

Dr Zoltán Sági
19 June, 2007

Dear Mr Kiš,

Thank you for your appreciative opinion. I think, even if not from the foreground but rather from the background, I would like to continue supporting you and your Moonlight work. It is truly a great pleasure to hear that the news about work like this is carried so far, since it tells about how people and lives can be saved from possible derailment. Young people who are now struggling with identity search or identity crisis will not understand this yet, at the time when they receive the help, but only later, when some years have passed. I wish you to have strength and determination to continue this work for a long time.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Zoltán Sági

Dr. Sándor Faragó
12 June 2007

Dear Deže, my friend,

Congratulations on the award and your work!
Without your persistened work these successes would never have been achieved.
I wish you good health and all the best.

Love,

Dr. Sándor Faragó
The Ping-Pong Doc

Dr Zoltán Sági
20 April 2007

Dear Mr Dezső Kiss! 

I was delighted to hear the news. I am very pleased that the Moonlight Programme is spreading at such pace and with such content. I was just thinking about it today at the usual morning hospital department meeting, that it seems to me that we meet less new drug addiction cases during our everyday work. I dare say that this is thanks to the Moonlight Club programme too. I have not looked into up-to-date reports, so I rely on my impression, when I say this. Of course old, relapsed addicts still visit us persistently. However, if the number of new cases falls, we can already talk about good results. We should keep on fighting in the front line – which is above all your work –, since that is the most important we can do. This is what we must do. And it is quite a lot!

Keep on the good work!
Sincerely:

Dr Zoltán Sági

László B.
Retired Mechanical Engineer

Szeged
8 January, 2007

I read your website and I was happy to be informed about the work and aims of the Moonlight Club.
Congratulations to Dezső Kiss on his community-forming activity, which offers help for the youth in spending their free time in a useful way.
There should be a lot more Clubs and selfless professionals like this to guide youth towards positive a view and approach to life.

Soós Edit 
teacher

Dear Moonlighters!

The power of sport in developing solidarity and forming community is unquestionable. It has proven many times in many different situations that it is one of those forces which are the most efficient in developing a healthy personality. 

Today, when our society is transforming, and when traditional institutions of youth education have lost the conventional role they used to have in the past and the role of parents also needs to be re-defined, it is a blessing that you can get together in such Clubs, make friends there and fill your evenings with a valuable content.
It is good to know that there are adults who aren’t only fussing like the Businessman in the Little Prince, but, as healthy seeds, collect the “vital fluids” around themselves and are building the institution of a responsible society.

Many of us truly appreciate the results you achieved. All the feedback that we received in our magazine Új Kép as responses to the coverage we published about you are clear proof of that.

So on Moonlight night you rule!

Soós Edit teacher, 
Senior Editor of Új Kép Magazine

Péter Jakab

Dear midnight table tennis players!

I managed to come to an agreement with the Leányfalu Wild Duck Society, and they are happy to receive us at their premises for a long weekend.
The cost of the camp (accommodation, meals, admissions, ice-cream) will be entirely paid for by MÉSE, but the travel cost will have to be paid by the Clubs.
The camp expects us at every weekend in July and August, with arrival at Friday noon, and departure at Sunday noon.
Possibilities: football, table tennis, rowing, cycling, outings.
Sleeping: in tents, sleeping bag required!
Dates can be reserved in the order of arrival, for application and planning of programme please contact me!
Have a good summer!!!

Regards: Péter Jakab

06/304-888-322

Please send your e-mail to both addresses:

jakab@ph.szentendre.hu
familyjakab@t-online.hu

To Mr Nikola K. in Bečej: 

The donation has arrived, thank you in the name of the youngsters too. All help comes in useful! Bats are wearing out, nets are getting torn, food and drink is running out. I wish there were more helping people like you!

Dezső K.

Dr. Sándor Faragó

The letter was “delivered” to Subotica and read at the first home table tennis championship of Moonlight Club 1 by Péter Jakab.

Dear Friends!

I warmly welcome all of you. Since the beginning of the Moonlight movement I have always considered it important, that this noble cause should not only gain ground in Hungary but in other countries too. After Germany, Romania and Ukraine, thanks to the efforts of my dear friend Dezső Kiss there are, as far as I know, already three Clubs operating in Serbia and Montenegro.

Of course my friend Dezső couldn’t have realized this alone. A team of benevolent people came together, whose names – without trying to be exhaustive – I would like to mention: Dezső Kiss, as coordinator, Andrija Romić, the Councillor of Sports and Youth Affairs at the Local Government of Subotica, Ildikó Lovas, Councillor of Cultural Affairs at the Local Government, Josip Šebešćen, the trainer of the local table tennis club, Erzsébet Ivanović, the Head teacher of the technical Secondary School of Subotica, as well as the teaching staff of the school, and many others.

I also think it is important that a particular region is represented, personalized by a “face”. This authentic personality for me is Dezső Kiss, who excelled not only in organizing the movement, but also in ensuring the ever so important media coverage. He deserves our thanks for that. I am sorry for not being able to be with you tonight because of my injury, but please feel that I am there in my thoughts.

The Hungarian Association of Midnight Sport Championships is represented today on the highest level by Péter Jakab, the President of the Association. The bridge between the two countries is being built with the co-operation of himself and Dezső Kiss – and with the help of sport.

I wish everyone a good time, exciting games and a lot of success!

Dr. Sándor Faragó
“ping-pong doctor”, the founding father of the movement

Signature

P H
(The official stamp of MÉSE)

Dr. Ferenc Kovács,
Szentendre

I really like your web-site, both its contents and the technical solution, congratulations on it! I will add it to my Favourites! When continuously updated it will be an excellent advertisement of night sport in Vojvodina. The Serbian version can be read by the whole country and this could motivate the work of other similar organizations too. It would be nice to have some articles translated to Serbian from the web-site of MÉSE too, so this could create a bridge between the professionals working in similar fields and the youth doing sports as well in the two countries.

Lieber Deszö!

Herzlichen Dank für Dein website und die lustige Beilage... wer ist Weltmeister im Pingpong? ... der Mann oder der Hund? 

Liebste Grüsse an alle!

Regula, Küsnacht, Switzerland

Bruno,
Pula, Croatia

I just visited your web-site and I would like to thank all the interesting information on it. The design and the contents of the web-site both hold the attention. Congratulations!

Dear Mr Kiss!

My mother wrote to me a few days ago, and she gave account of her visit in the Club with great enthusiasm. She also sent me the link to the website, so I could see what your Club is actually engaged in. It is quite remarkable and I hope that more and more young people will join it, and will have a chance to learn from these noble people and from each other about the bright side of life, and to understand as early as possible that it doesn’t take so many things to be happy. I’m sure, as my mother told me about it, that there is a great atmosphere in the club, and the kids enjoy the conversation and the common activities. It‘s  pity that the concept behind this initiative is still in infancy there, and only few people understand how much it could change the life of the youth taking part in it. This programme should be supported on a national level and continuous financial resources should be provided for its implementation and expansion.

I wish you a lot of success for all this again, and as soon as I get back on my feet I’m sure I will also be able to support the programme too.

A Devotee from California

DEAR DEZSÕ,

I’ve just read the “moonlight” website. I’m very happy to have found out more about the activities of the Club. I read some articles about it in "Suboticke novine" and "Magyar Szó" but it was not described in such great detail there. It is true that only a few kids are visiting it yet, but as you said, it is mostly poorer kids who are interested in it, the better-off ones are sitting in cafés and are drinking beer or using drugs. This is our golden youth. Maybe it’s not even their fault, but much more that of the parents, and the age which we live in after the chaotic times.

I don’t know if you advertise the existence of these clubs somewhere, but maybe it would be a good idea to put out fliers or posters in schools so that even more youngsters find out about it.

Maybe the students and participants could write their opinions and ideas on this website too?

I was already happy to read about the foundation of this club last summer, especially when I read that you were the main initiator here in Subotica. I know that there are similar night sport centres in Canada, and of course Hungary too, and I’ve always thought that it’s a pity that there are no such centres here, because there isn’t enough money for them. Now you proved that something valuable can be created from “nothing” or “a little” too, it only takes a positive attitude and a lot of love for the kids. It is a pity that I’m not in the shape anymore to help somehow, if not else, I could spread the butter on the bread. I really wish this enthusiastic little team a lot of success in establishing as many clubs of this kind as possible.

ANSWER: Great idea! We added a new menu point among the others with the title LETTER BOX.

Péter Jakab

Thank you, we will put it on our website as a reference link.

Péter Jakab, 
President of Hungarian Associations of Midnight Sport Championships

Hello!

I’m very happy about the website.
I’m looking forward to the date when my works will be exhibited in the club.  

Regards

Your website is great. I would be a good idea to indicate the current account number where financial donations can be made to support the Moonlight Programme.

ANSWER:  Great idea! Financial donations can be paid to the following account number:

Dear All!

Subotica made a great website, take a look at it, You can find the link on the introduction page of Subotica.

ÁGI from Szentendre
(The editor of the website of MÉSE)

Karola, Ingolstadt

Thank you for the opportunity to read about you (us) on the web. The website is beautiful!

Report

It is clear for everyone that the Moonlight Club has more children than the street. Many parents aren’t even aware that their children use drugs, smoke, steal, or is just loafing in the streets instead of doing some kind of sport (e.g. basketball, football, table tennis, volleyball or some other sport).
Our trainer is Josip Šebešćen, or by his nickname Ćoćo, and the teacher is Dezső Kiss, and he is the boss, he organizes the tombola. My responsibility is recording the competitions. In my class there is a boy, Stefan Konstadinović, who has been playing table tennis for about 4-5 years. He has already been qualified for the national championship. He is a very good player and never misses a training. He trains in the Spartacus table tennis club, and his trainer there is Ćoćo. Maybe some of us can become like him too thanks to the trainer and our teacher. There is about 40 of us in the Club and the best ones (or some of them) are the following: Attila Kalamica, Ákos Nagy, Endre Nagy, Branislav Simin, Teodora, Izabela, Norbert T., Robi, David and of course the VIKINGS (Dejan Heralić and Norbert Siraki), Siniša, the Juhász brothers,and some more students from the school. The teacher from MEŠC are also there with us, as well as Marko, the soldier, who is very kind to us.

Written by:
Snežana Heralić, 6^th grade student
Majšanski Put Primary School

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