Debrecen4U June 13, 2025

Rotary Club Debrecen supports the Pallagi Road Elderly Home

The Rotary Club Debrecen donated 9 rolling bath chairs, with a total value of approximately HUF 700,000, to the Pallagi Road Elderly Home of the Municipal Social Service of the City of Debrecen on 12 June, 2025.

The club has already supported the Pallagi Road location of the Municipal Social Service in recent years. For example, in 2022 and 2023, it donated 2 anti-bedsore beds and 3 air cushion mattresses worth more than HUF 1,500,000 to make the elderly living in the home as comfortable as possible and prevent bedsores. Now, in addition to the 9 bath chairs, the Rotary Club Debrecen has also donated a toilet seat and 100,000 rubber gloves, necessary for everyday care work.

As stated by the president of the Rotary Club Debrecen, Dr. István Kiss said during the event that Rotary is a global organisation whose fundamental goal and task is to improve the lives of needy members of local communities through the charitable activities of its local organisations. The newly donated bath chairs make it easier for the disabled or helpless residents of the elderly home to clean themselves and move around. The institution has, of course, had such devices before, but due to continuous use and wear and tear, it is good if there is a continuous supply of them. The Debrecen club financed the purchase of the devices partly from its own resources and partly from the Rotary Club’s foundation resources. Dr. István Kiss also mentioned that, based on the needs assessment, they will of course also try to regularly help the institution’s work in the future.

According to the head of the Municipal Social Service of the City of Debrecen, Lajosné Nagy, the Pallagi Road nursing home provides care to a total of 325 elderly people 24 hours a day. One-third of the residents are inpatients. This donation will be of great help primarily for their bathing. On the one hand, the rolling bath chairs provide a more comfortable and safer environment for the residents, and on the other hand, they reduce the physical strain on the staff by making it easier to move between the room and the bathroom and to bathe. 

Deputy Mayor Dr. Diána Széles thanked the members of the Rotary Club Debrecen for helping the city’s community on countless occasions and in many ways, not just the nursing home. Their activities also appear in the form of gifts, such as the spatial sculpture that was inaugurated on Kossuth Square in 2023, depicting the emblematic buildings of the city centre and that can be touched and thus carry information for the visually impaired.

According to the deputy mayor, the numerous assistance programmes implemented using municipal and state funds, beyond the idea of ​​a caring city, show a sense of love and belonging in Debrecen for the benefit of those in need. This is also evident in the fact that, for example, entrepreneurs who are members of the Rotary Club Debrecen do not need to be individually encouraged to engage in charitable acts but rather consider it their mission: they want to do something voluntarily for the city’s community. The municipality, through the Debrecen Charitable Board, coordinates the assistance activities of various civil organisations, but in fact the volunteers of the civil organisations are the “engines” of this work; they are the real “everyday heroes”! The Rotary Club Debrecen is also one of those organisations that have been doing a lot for the entire community of the city for many years and decades, and their help is always practical; it is always determined by real needs.

The donation event was attended by municipal representative Róbert Juráskó as well as Dr. Lajos Sedlák and Klára Réka Bognár, members of the Rotary Club Debrecen.

Source and photo credit:debrecen.hu