As part of MOHU’s “Turn It Into a Smile” programme, consumers can support three new organisations for six months: the Peter Cerny Foundation, the Child Feeding Foundation, and SOS Children’s Villages.
From January, donations made from bottle return proceeds will help save the lives of premature babies and support families in need, assisting them in everyday life and helping them stay together, MOHU’s communications agency told MTI on Friday.
Through the “Turn It Into a Smile” programme, at every return made via a REpont reverse vending machine, consumers can choose whether to receive the refund as a store voucher, via an instant bank transfer, or to donate it to charity. The causes and organisations available for donation change from time to time.
Donations from bottle returns will now support the work of the Peter Cerny Foundation for the Treatment of Sick Premature Babies, the Child Feeding Foundation, and SOS Children’s Villages.
The Peter Cerny Foundation will use the donations to help fund the purchase of a specially equipped neonatal emergency vehicle designed for rescuing premature and ill newborns.
“The next-generation, modern vehicle provides life-saving support during the critical first hours and during intensive-care transports, when every minute counts, and it enables safer on-site care for the smallest patients,” said Zsolt Somogyvári, chair of the foundation’s board of trustees, in the statement.
The Child Feeding Foundation will allocate the donations from bottle returns to its Fel a fejjel! programme.
“The programme provides food support to families in need on a monthly basis for 12 months in 20 settlements,” said András Király, president of the organisation.
In the case of SOS Children’s Villages, the donations will support the Mobile Family Strengthening Programme launched in 2025.
“The programme supports disadvantaged families with young children living in and around Kecskemét so that, despite difficult life circumstances, they can stay together and the removal of children from their families can be prevented,” said Hajnalka Bán, the organisation’s director of fundraising and communications.
According to the statement, since the launch of MOHU’s REpont system, consumers have returned more than 4 billion beverage containers.
Since the mandatory deposit return system was introduced in 2024, more than HUF 350 million has been raised through the charitable donation function of REpont machines.
