The Wine Festival has changed an old habit: when arriving at the cash desks, visitors will no longer automatically receive the elegant, neck-hooked holder with their wine glasses, but that doesn't mean that it will be any less comfortable to sip wine. The holders will of course be available to everyone this year, but in the spirit of sustainability, they will only be given to those who really want them. So all you have to do is visit the Malta Manufactory Point stand (72) in the Csikós courtyard, where you can simply ask for it. At the stand you can also see, admire and buy other beautiful handmade products of the Malta Manufactory.
But who has been making the Wine Festival's cases for 6 years?
One of the turning points in the lives of seamstresses in Tiszabura, one of Hungary's poorest villages, was when they sewed 40,000 hanging glass cases for the 2018 Wine Festival. Building on the great success of the project, the The Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta also started a sewing workshop in other disadvantaged settlements.
These workshops, which employ a few people and help to socialise people for work, play a very important role in the life of rural communities. For most of them, this is the easiest way out of the intergenerational hopelessness they have experienced in one of Hungary's 300 poorest villages. According to the Inclusive Settlements Project (FETE), work socialisation and quality, recycling and community building go hand in hand in the latest exciting project, in which seamstresses are reimagining work clothes and discarded jeans donated by residents to make a variety of recycled ornaments, bags, bean bag chairs and cushions. Check out Manufactory's creatively recycled products! With your purchase, you personally contribute to help people living in FETE settlements experience the value and usefulness of their work.
