To be part of Rotary means to dedicate some of the time otherwise allocated to your career, business, and /or family, to serve the community. Thus:

• Each Tuesday we meet with our Rotarian colleagues in a pleasant location to discuss about the needs and problems identified in the community, as well as about initiatives to support the education of our children, ways to improve the health of the citizens by investing in the medical infrastructure, but also to discuss as friends or to plan and implement actions with and for Rotary members, both in our club and other clubs in the country and abroad.
• Every year we organize charity events (concerts, balls, shows, sports events) to raise funds in order to implement our programs:
• Rotary for Education
• Rotary for Health
• Rotary for Communitythen we actively participate in the implementation of the proposed projects.In order to broaden our sphere of knowledge and to develop and implement projects that are useful to our community, at our meetings we regularly invite personalities from various fields (urban marketing, community based education, dual education) who can provide us with relevant and updated information.
• We regularly participate along with our Rotaract colleagues in their actions and financially and logistically support the work of the children from Interact.

According to the rotation principle (Rotary), each Rotarian year we choose a new leadership team (the Rotarian year begins on 1^st  July  and ends on  30^th June of the following year), thus ensuring a democratic leadership based on the non- privileged rule.

The Rotary Club Satu Mare

The Rotary Club Satu Mare was established in 2003 at the initiative of a group of businessmen and personalities from Satu Mare, who shared the same ideals and principles with the Rotary movement from around the world and who decided to contribute to the improvement of the community of Satu Mare.

In this respect, over the years the club has implemented a number of actions and projects:

• Educational projects and programs;
• Financial and logistic support for children with autism;
• Facilities for Centers of excellence for children;
• Modernization, upgrade and rehabilitation of medical departments;
• Actions for the elders who are alone;
• Prophylactic health care programs;
• Awarding the Olympian students from Satu Mare;
• Acknowledging and rewarding teachers.

Furthermore, every year each elected president strives for the development and consolidation of the club team through socialization and personal development actions. At present, the Rotary Club of Satu Mare has 38 members, the number varying from year to year.

Rotary International

As for the Rotary movement at the international level, the first clubs were founded over 100 years ago; the first was established in 1905 by the lawyer Paul Harris, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He invited some friends to set up a group based on the total openness and sincerity of their members, imposing the rule of the non-privileged right from the beginning: no one is favored in any way, not even by the mere fact that he/she hosts the group meetings twice a year – PRINCIPLE OF ROTATION. That’s how the ROTARY GROUP was born.

The group of friends has expanded, it became a club, members being chosen on the basis of professionalism, moral qualities in social, family and business life. The club is headed by a chairman who holds his position for one year without the possibility of re-election. Subsequently, due to the increase in the number of clubs, there came up the necessity of an organization form based on geographic proximity criteria, in districts, whose activity is coordinated by a governor.

In 1910, Paul Harris became the first president of Rotary International, since then the “one-year president” criterion has also been applied at the highest Rotarian level. At the same time, the two fundamental principles that are the quintessential of Rotary International were adopted:

”Service beyond self” and

”The one who serves (the community) is the most advantaged.”

An association of equals, each one professionally recognized in his/her field of activity, persons of great character and reputation, who work as good professionals and leaders of local communities, Rotary promotes the ideal of serving for the benefit of the public in the profession and in society, while constantly proving integrity. Cultivating personal relationships between representatives of different professions, craftsmen and guilds from the local community is recognizing the value of any useful activity.

Rotarians have the obligation to regularly participate in the weekly meetings of the club, where they have the opportunity to find out what is happening in other professions and guilds, to support by financial means and organizing skills and actions the club’s projects, to propose new qualified members and to activate within the committees in the four directions of action: internal, professional, of public interest and international.

There are around 30.000 Rotary Clubs around the world, with more than 1.2 million members.

”The Four-Way Test” or ”The Criterion of the Four Questions”

Since the beginning of this organization, Rotary members have been concerned with promoting ethical standards in professional life. One of the most widespread and quoted business ethics statements is “The Criterion of the Four Questions” or “The Four-Way Test”, which was formulated in 1932 by a member of the Rotary organization – Mr. Herbet Taylor, when he was asked to take over the leadership of a company on the verge of bankruptcy. This XXIV Code of Ethics for employees has become the guide for sales, production, advertising and customer relations departments, and the survival of this company was due to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, “The Criterion of the Four Questions” has been translated into more than one hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It answers the following interrogations related to a situation involving more people:

• Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Romania – Interbelic period

In the spring of 1929, the first Rotary Club in Romania is founded in Bucharest, at the initiative of Christian Penescu-Kertsch, who becomes the first president. It is immediately followed by Rotary clubs in two major cities of the country – Cluj Napoca and Timisoara.

Rotary goals and ideals are understood and accepted by the intellectual elite of the country, in all fields of activity – science, art or business – the result being the establishment of six clubs in Arad, Braşov, Câmpina, Cernăuţi, Iaşi and Ploieşti. With nine clubs, in 1936, the Romanian District is created, receiving the number #84. The effect of Rotary activity and actions has begun to be noticed throughout the country. But in full swing, the Rotarian movement is forbidden by the authoritarian regimes throughout the Central-Eastern region of Europe.

Rotary Romania – Establishing the new District 2241

In 1992, with the support of French Rotarians, the Rotary Club of Bucharest is re-established. Just like the first time, it is immediately followed by clubs in Cluj Napoca and Timişoara, so that in June 1996 there are 13 clubs in Romania that are part of the 1160 District of Paris.

On the 1^st of July 1996, Romania surpassed a second barrier: it is defined by Rotary International as a “Rotarian expansion area”, together with the Republic of Moldova. The International Committee also appoints the Swiss Rotarian Jorg Tschopp as “Presidential Administrator for Expansion”. The result is impressive – in less than three years, the number of clubs reaches 30. There are also two absolute premieres: the first Rotary Club in Chişinău and the establishment of a second club in the capital – the Rotary Club Bucharest – Continental.

Through their actions, the Rotarians brought near six million dollars to Romania and Moldova in six years, therefore the re-enactment of the district status became an imperative. This event took place on 1^st of September 1999, when the Rotary International Committee and President Carlo Ravizza decided that Rotary clubs in Romania and Moldova would be part of their own district, number #2241.  After Poland (1998), the Czech Republic and Slovakia (reunited in one district in 1999), it was our country’s turn to have its own district, honor that no other Eastern European country ever had.

ROTARACT is the young wing of Rotary, an international community of young professionals aged between 18 and 30, in which they are provided with a  framework for personal development by engaging in addressing the physical and social needs of their communities.

ROTARACT members are young people who want to grow alongside their communities. Through the projects it organizes (educational, vocational, social or environmental), it is promoted the ROTARACT spirit, contributing to the evolution of local communities and supporting the formation of leaders in various fields. The ROTARACT network, with more than 290.000 members throughout the world and 177 countries involved, is organized in local clubs that are part of a global effort to bring peace and understanding into the world. That makes them true “service partners” and key members in the Rotary family.

Each ROTARACT Club is part of a ROTARACT district organization, led by a ROTARACT Representative elected annually (DRR), who coordinates the district’s work and district board team. The district organization plans both regional and district conferences, develops diverse projects, organizes trainings and seminars for its members, and supports special events in order to tighten links between clubs.

Over 60 Clubs in Romania and the Republic of Moldova form together the #2241 District – ROTARACT Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

For further information on the activity of the ROTARACT Club Satu Mare, please visit our page: https://www.facebook.com/rotaract.satumare/

Interact is a non-formal organization that aims to promote leadership values among young people aged 12 to 18 and it is focused on the direct and indirect benefits of teamwork. Today, over 300.000 young people from 138 countries belong to more than 13.000 Interact clubs.

Interact clubs have weekly meetings where projects are discussed and new activities are proposed, members coming up with various initiatives.

Interact is closely associated to the Rotary Club, whose sponsorship and support it enjoys. Interact members undertake the same goal as regards the purpose in society, namely “Service above Self”. “Interact” means “International Action”. In this respect, all activities and projects are aimed at promoting the values of leadership and communication among young people,

For further information on the activity of the Interact Club Satu Mare, please visit our page: https://www.facebook.com/interactclubsatumare/

Rotary Community Corps is a group of people who share the Rotarians’ commitment to changing the world through service projects.

Members of the Rotary Community Corps plan and implement projects in their communities and support Rotary club projects, but are not members of a Rotary club. There are over 8500 such informal organizations in over 90 countries around the world.

If you resonate with our vision and want to be actively involved in actions aimed at developing the Satu Mare community, we invite you to contact us in order to join the Satu Mare Community Corps!all acquired in projects related to charitable causes.