Some of the measures Hungarian authorities have implemented so far include building a border fence and closing off access to migrants hoping to travel further into more affluent EU member states.
"Hungarian authorities don’t help much. We have two medical rooms in this Transit Zone from them, but they don’t help with food, even with information," a volunteer who gave her first name Juli stressed.
The Migration Aid volunteer said she has been working with the Budapest-based group for over a month.
Juli described her duties, which include providing medical help, food and clothes, translating public messages, and accompanying migrants to railway stations heading to refugee camps. In one instance, she took a pregnant woman to a local hospital where the woman gave birth.
"There are many volunteers. We have a lot of applications from people, more than we’ve expected, so we need to divide people to different locations," Juli said.
She noted that certain volunteers, most notably doctors, are on the clock until midnight at railway stations to help up to 3,000 migrants that have set up camp there.
The donations that Migration Aid receives from Hungarian citizens every day amount to 1,500 food and other products, but Juli tells Sputnik it is not enough.
She argued that volunteers are unable to help migrants desperate to travel to Germany, France and Sweden, instead advising them to go to refugee camps where they can wait for migration documents.
"According to European rules, they have to stay in the country where they have been registered until immigration authorities make a decision about their status. If the decision is positive, they will stay as refugees; if not – they will be sent back," Juli said.
On its social media page, Migration Aid warned that Hungarian authorities' "underprepared and inconsistent" actions at Keleti contributed to tension and protests at the station.
The group blamed local and national leaders for putting its volunteers at risk with "contradictory" moves and announced an awareness raising demonstration for later on Wednesday.