Debrecen4U June 13, 2025

Rotary Club Debrecen supports the Pallagi Road Elderly Home

The Rotary Club Debrecen donated nine rolling shower chairs, valued at approximately HUF 700,000, to the Pallagi Road Elderly Home of the Municipal Social Service of the City of Debrecen on June 12, 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 two anti-bedsores beds and three 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. In addition to the nine shower chairs, the Rotary Club Debrecen has also donated a toilet seat and 100,000 rubber gloves, which are necessary for everyday care work.

As President of the Rotary Club Debrecen, Dr István Kiss stated during the event that Rotary is a global organisation whose fundamental goal and task is to improve the lives of members of local communities in need through the charitable activities of its regional organisations. The newly donated shower 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 beneficial to have a constant supply of them. The Debrecen Club financed the purchase of the devices partly from its resources and partly from the Rotary Club’s foundation resources. He mentioned that, based on the needs assessment, they will, of course, also try to help the institution’s work in the future regularly.

According to Lajosné Nagy, the head of the Municipal Social Service of the City of Debrecen, 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 assistance, particularly in meeting their bathing needs. On the one hand, rolling shower chairs provide a more comfortable and safer environment for residents. On the other hand, they reduce physical strain on staff by making it easier to move between rooms and the bathroom, as well as to bathe. 
Deputy Mayor Dr. Diána Széles thanked the members of the Rotary Club Debrecen for their numerous contributions to the city’s community, not just the nursing home. Their activities also manifest in the form of gifts, such as the spatial sculpture inaugurated on Kossuth Square in 2023, which depicts the emblematic buildings of the city centre and can be touched, thereby conveying information to 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. For example, entrepreneurs who are members of the Rotary Club Debrecen do not need to be individually encouraged to engage in charitable acts; instead, they consider it their mission to volunteer for the city’s community. The municipality, through the Debrecen Charity Board, coordinates the assistance activities of various civil organisations. However, in reality, the volunteers of these organisations are the “engines” of this work; they are the real “everyday heroes.” The Rotary Club Debrecen is also one of the organisations that have been making a significant contribution to the city’s entire community for many years and decades, and their assistance is always practical and 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