What is Rotary?
Rotary is a world-wide organisation in which people with various occupations are willing to perform humanitarian service. In their professional and private life, they follow high ethical standards and they endeavour to spread understanding and goodwill in the world.
Rotarians cultivate these ideals in their meetings in the Rotary Clubs.
Individual Rotarians represent these ideals and live according to these.
Rotary’s objective in everyday life is helpfulness:
„Service above Self“.
Rotary wishes to achieve this objective in the following ways:
- by supporting friendship, which gives an opportunity to become useful for others,
- in private and professional life, by acknowledging high ethical standards and the worthiness of every activity that is useful for the community,
- by supporting the responsible private, professional and public activities of all Rotarians,
- by cultivating goodwill, which serves understanding and peace among peoples through a world community of active people united by the ideal of helpfulness.
The Four-Way Test
In Rotary the four-way test has become the accepted measure of the application and observation of high ethical standards:
- Is it the truth?
- Is it fair to all concerned?
- Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
- Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
The short history of Hungarian Rotary
- The first Hungarian Rotary Club was established in Budapest in 1925
- following Budapest, before 1931, clubs were established in Szeged, Pécs, Debrecen, Hódmezővásárhely, Miskolc and Orosháza
- in 1934 Hungary became an independent district (”Provisional District E of Rotary International”), the 82. Rotary district
- in 1941 the number of Hungarian Rotary Clubs rose to fifteen
- in 1942, however, the membership of Hungarian clubs ceased and Rotary activity was suspended for 7 years
- in 1988 the provisional Rotarians of Budapest re-established the Rotary Club
- today there are nationwide 30 clubs with nearly 900 members, who are active in business life, cultural life and healthcare. The organisation of charity programmes is a priority in every club’s life.
The Rotary Club of Veszprém
Our club is held together through friendship and the wish to act.
We have weekly meetings in Villa Medici Restaurant in Veszprém.
- Our main objective is the cultivation of helpfulness and friendship
- Currently we have 14 members
- We believe that significant results can be achieved by coordinating the power of many goodwill people. The organisation of a club member made the life-saving heart operation possible in Germany of several children from Veszprém
- We helped the homeless shelter of Veszprém by collecting unused furniture and clothing
- We participated in organising the vacation of foreign children by Lake Balaton
- Through the club, 3 university students from Veszprém participated in a 3-month production practice in France