lions club timişoara code of ethics

1993 - 2013
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Dear friends of Lions Club Timişoara,
Dear Lions friends,
We find ourselves celebrating a special moment in
the existence of our organization: its first 20 years of
existence and uninterrupted activity.
All this time, we have tried to contribute as much as
possible to the welfare of the Timişoara community,
as well as to that of District 124 Lions Romania.
We have organized charitable campaigns to support
elderly care and hospitals for children, as well as to
bring a ray of light for Easter and Christmas, we have
offered support to natural disaster victims.
We can take pride in being a club where many members hold the high distinction offered by Lions International – Melvin Jones, in recognition of their merits
in promoting lionistic activity.
We have had and will have ambitions projects, deeply
lionistic – the mobile ophthalmic clinic and Geo, the
guide dog for the blind to mention but two of them.
All these accomplishments would not have been possible without sustained efforts and without the generous support of our sponsors.
But most importantly, we have grown as an organization and developed long-lasting friendships, and we
still have much to accomplish together.
I invite all those who feel inclined to do voluntary
work, to join us as members, supporters or sponsors.
Through abnegation and strong will, Lions Club
Timişoara has made and will continue to make its
presence felt in District 124 Romania.
In our lives each of us has memorable anniversaries, related either to ourselves or to our family.
The Lions District 124 Romania family celebrates
this year two decades since the creation of Lions
Club Timişoara and the 20th Lions National Convention.
“Twenty Years Later”… twenty years of experiences, of groping around, of accomplishments, of
successful projects and, last but not least, twenty
years of genuine friendship.
Presently, out of the thirty-six members, eight are
founder members: Guy, Adrian, Marin, Radu,
Mihai, Titus, Marius, Gigi.
Out of the eight founder members, two have been
governors of our District, PDG 1997-1998 Gheorghe Şepeţean and PDG 2004-2005 Mihai Olariu.
For the following lionistic year (2014-2015), VDG
1 Marius Popa will be the next District governor.
This is not merely statistics, but a tribute to the
value of this club’s members.
Together with all other Lions members of District
124 Romania, Lions Club Timişoara has made history to inspire our followers through added value,
a distinctive personality, attitude and charisma.
For everything that you have undertaken and accomplished, for your continued efforts in spite
of the inevitable failures, for your friendship and
courage, for the smile on the lips of an unknown
fellow man, for all this, dear friends of Lions Club
Timişoara, I wish to thank you from the bottom of
my heart!
For all this, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Lionistically yours,
TOMA MIȘCĂ
President 2013-2014
LC Timișoara
Most distinguished members of LC Timişoara
Dear Lions friends,
I wish to thank you for your involvement in lionism!
LC Timişoara is one of the first clubs in Romania,
with a long tradition of involvement in the life of
the community and in that of the county – tradition reflected by the many projects that you have
accomplished or embarked on, as well as by the fact
that this club has given so far the largest number of
Governors (three, Marius included). You have been
one of the founding stones of the District and will
remain a reference for Romanian “lionism”.
I dare say that, together with other clubs, you are
part of the Romanian “lionistic” heritage!
I can only wish that you pursue your activity as you
have done so far and accomplish numerous local
and national objectives. To you and to your families
and Lions friends from all over the country, I wish
you enjoy lionism!
Best lionistic regards,
Benedict ANCAR
International Director
“Bonjour mes chers Amis,
C’est avec beaucoup de peine que je ne pourrai me joindre à vos festivités de célébration
d’anniversaire de notre Lions Club qui fût, si ma
mémoire ne me fait pas défaut , le quatrième club
de Roumanie.
En effet, lorsque nous avons entrepris en 1993 le
projet de création d’un club à Timisoara, nul ne savait si ce projet aboutirait, nous étions cependant
persuadé qu’il nous fallait faire quelque chose….
Il y avait à cette époque deux actions en cours,
nous pûmes coordonner en bonne intelligence
ces deux projets et grâce à l’aide de nos club parrains , notre Lions club fût créer.
N’oublions pas également nos disparus, je pense
particulièrement à Ion Mihaescu qui fût pour moi
un ami très cher, un conseiller d’un dévouement
extraordinaire et sans qui le Club n’aurait peutêtre pas vu le jour.
Je tiens à remercier tous nos fidèles adhérents de
la première heure, leur sens du lionnisme, leur fierté d’appartenir à la grande maison du Lions international, je ne peux citer tous le monde, mais je
tiens à les remercier tous de leur amitié et de leur
sens de l’étique.
Je suis retenu en France pour une réunion familiale à laquelle je ne peux me soustraire, mais
sachez que je suis avec vous en pensée et que tous
mes vœux vous accompagnent pour la réussite de
votre fête.
Très sincères amitiés .
Happy Birthday, Lions Club Timişoara!
Happy Birthday, District 124 Romania!
Best lionistic regards,
GUY BOUDINOT
Fait à Liesse le 8 novembre 2013”
DG 2013-2014 MIRELA GRIGOROVICI
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Lions Club Timişoara was founded in November
1993 and from May 1994 it was accepted as a full
member of the Lions Clubs International, with 26
founding members, enrolled voluntarily under
the motto „We Serve”. They have subscribed to
the lionistic ideals that form a veritable code of
ethics and have had the desire and the ability to
perform the tasks that they have undertaken.
Lions Club Timişoara is an apolitical, non-profit
organization whose existence is at the service of
the community to which it belongs.
Its past and future activities and initiatives are
aimed at helping the underprivileged social strata, at supporting young people’s extracurricular
education, at stimulating socio-cultural activities
and at developing the civil society in Romania..
The founding members of
Lions Club Timişoara:
1. BOUDINOT Guy – founding president
2. BRÂNZAN Ovidiu
3. BUCIU Florin
4. COIFAN Viorel
5. DOBREAN Cornel
6. DRAGOMIRESCU Adrian
7. GEORGESCU Remus
8. GHIŢESCU Marin
9. ILIESCU Radu
10. IONESCU Mircea
11. KOCZKA Gheorghe
12. LAZĂR Dorin
13. LUPU Constantin
14. MATEESCU Emil
15. MIHĂIESCU Ion
16. MOGOŞANU Mihai
17. MOICA Afilon
18. NEGRUŢIU Lucian
19. OLARIU Mihai
20. PLEAVĂ Titus
21. POPA Marius
22. ŞEPEŢEAN Gheorghe
23. STRÎMBEANU Nicolae
24. ŢAPUCHEVICI Sergiu
25. VILLEMAIN Marc Claire
26. VLADISLAV Viorel
The May 21, 1994 bell bears the
following engraving:
Les Clubs de la Zone 31 – Region1,
District 103 Centre Este France (Belfort Cité,
Belfort Vauban, Lure Luxeuil, Pays de
Monbéliard, Vallée du Doubs, Vesoul).
A leur Club filleul de Timisoara,
“Unis et libres, nous servons.”
Samedi 21 mai 1994
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20 Years of HUMANITY
Beautiful years, full of accomplishments and emotions, during which we became better, more united, more powerful and
more humane.
They say that distances divide people, but their souls bring
them together. That is what happened in 1993 when Lions
Club arrived in Timişoara determined to uphold the organization’s credo: “Freedom, Wisdom in Protecting the Nation”.
These principles gained ground in our community.
We adopted responsibly the idea implemented worldwide
by the big LIONS family: “We serve!”
After twenty years of activity, Lions Club Timişoara can take
pride in having managed, step by step, to challenge and
change mentalities and preconceptions in a society only
recently liberated from its seclusion, and less sensitive to the
needs of those in pain. Rallied under the club’s banner – the
purple of loyalty to friends and the golden of generosity
toward the needy – we have proven that human solidarity
does exist.
We have built bridges between people and developed a longterm strategy in order to fight poverty and to improve the
quality of life of the people with special needs, sick or without
support. We managed to gain ground through loyalty and
honesty! We are constantly visible publicly whenever the
community needs our support.
All over the world, “Lionism” helps heal humanity’s permanent
wounds, while cultivating the beautiful sides of life: friendship, harmony and unity. During its two decades of existence,
as a model of social equilibrium and involvement, Lions Club
Timişoara has brought the city built around the Bega canal
betterment, thus making it more visible both nationally and
internationally. Timişoara has become one of the cities of the
world permanently up-to-date with the realities of the more
developed countries, defined by dignity and desire to help.
It is with honor and pride that one counts oneself among
“Timişoara’s Lions” by supporting humanitarian and awareness
campaigns, social and cultural events, as well as fundraising
campaigns in order to support the projects we embark on
every year. Today we serve the community and make our voice
heard in order to express our deepest wish: “Let us be better,
stronger, and more humane!”
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HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Members of the
Lions Club Timişoara 2013
1. Aramă Adrian
2. Aslău Daniel
3. Balaş Cristian
4. Blaj Lucian Claudiu
5. Bora Constantin
6. Boudinot Guy,
Founder President, Member of Honour
7. Claici Dorin
8. Dragomirescu Adrian
9. Dumitrescu Florin George
10. Gârboni Ioan Coriolan
11. Gheorghiu Dorel
12. Ghiţescu Marin
13. Grapini Ilie Aurel
14. Iliescu Radu
15. Ionică Lucian
16. Iovescu Lucian
17. Lăpuşan Horia Mircea
18. Macavei Florin
19. Mircea Vlad
20. Miron Iris
21. Mişca Toma Remus
22. Moldt Ştefan
23. Munteanu Dorinel
at large member
24. Munteanu Mihnea
25. Olariu Mihai
Former District Governor, 2004-2005
26. Pfaff Konrad Victor
27. Pleavă Titus
28. Popa Marius - Vice Governor
viceguvernator 2013/2014
29. Răceanu Mihai
30. Roşu Şerban Marius
31. Sandu Ştefan
32. Şepeţean Gheorghe Corneliu
Former District Governor, 1997-1998
33. Ţaga Claudiu
34. Vaida Corneliu Nicolae
35. Vereş Pavel
36.Vișoiu Dan
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Members rewarded with the
“Melvin Jones Fellow” distinction
Marius Popa - 2008
Corneliu Vaida – 2012
Daniel Aslău – 2013
Presidents of Lions Club Timişoara
Guy Boudinot, founding president 1993/1994
Ion Mihăescu, 1994/1995
Constantin Lupu, 1995/1996
Gheorghe Şepeţean, 1996/1997
(Governor 1997/1998)
Adrian Dragomirescu, 1997/1998
Afilon Moica, 1998/1999
Titus Pleavă, 1999/2000
Mihai Olaru, 2000/2001 (Governor 2004/2005)
Bogdan Achimescu, 2001/2002
Marius Popa, 2002/2003
(Vice Governor 2013/2014)
Marin Ghiţescu, 2003/2004
Virgil Rotaru, 2004/2005
Konrad Pfaff, 2005/2006
Vlad Mircea, 2006/2007
Corneliu Vaida, 2007/2008
Costantin Bora, 2008/2009
Daniel Aslău, 2009/2010
Ştefan Moldt, 2010/2011
Lucian Iovescu, 2011/2012
Florin Macavei, 2012/2013
Toma Misca, 2013/2014
1993 – the first meetings take place. On October 6,
1993 the Lions Club Timişoara Association is legally
founded by court order.
1994 – On October 5, 1994 - Chartering occurs:
Belfort Cité, Berfort Vauban, Lure Luxeuil, Pays de
Montbéliard, Vallée de Doubs, Vesoul. The sponsors
are: CLT French clubs in 31st Zone, 1st Region, 103
District East Center, France.
– CLT is the 4th Lions Club of Romania
– CLT organizes Christmas for orphans and children
with AIDS in the hospitals of Timişoara
– CLT organizes the Conference on AIDS prevention
1995 – CLT grants aid for people from Ofseniţa and
Banloc who have suffered from the earthquake
1994-1996 – CLT awards scholarships
2005 – CLT sends food and material aid whose
value amounts to €40,000 to the flood victims in
Otelec (Timiş)
2006 – CLT offers a RON80,000 (€25,000) sponsorship to the Radiotherapy Clinic from the City
Emergency Hospital (Timişoara) for the acquisition
of a pill for renewed certification of the radioactive
cobalt radiotherapy unit „ROKUS”
2007 – CLT sponsors „IRIS” high school with
€30,000 for an IT laboratory for blind children
2009-2010 – The Mobile Clinic is a project entirely
financed by the CLT (the financial aid amounts to
€40,000)
2010-2011 – In cooperation with Lions Club Bari
(Italy), CLT brings in Timişoara the first professionally trained guide dog (it was trained in a special
Lions center) for a visually impaired teacher from
Iris high school. The contribution of our club was
€17,000 (the teacher’s roundtrip in Italy in order to
be trained to use this kind of dog and the costs for
the dog food and care over a 10-year period).
– Supporting the musical education of a young
visually impaired person for whom we bought a
first class musical instrument and offered a
scholarship for one year. Total amount: €3000.
2011-2012 – Wayne Madden’s visit (Vice-President
of Lions Club International) – March 2012 (photo
on the Club’s website)
On September 4, 2011 – Charity Concert – Mircea
Baniciu, ER & Virgil Ianţu – in order to raise money
for the renovation of Ion Vidu College in Timişoara,
affected by a fire in 2011
2012-2013 – The collected and donated amounts
so far: €240,000.
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Lions Club Timișoara
Lions Club Ittiri, Sardinia
Italy - 2008
Lions Club Timișoara
Lions Club “Neoplanta” Novi Sad
Serbia - 2011
PARTICIPATION IN
INTERNATIONAL LIONS EVENTS
TWINNING
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Lions Club Timișoara
Lions Club “Gioachino Murat” Bari
Timișoara - 2012
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Lions International Convention
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Hamburg, Germania, 2013
Birmingham, UK, 1998
Other conferences:
Detroit, Michigan, SUA, 2004
The Multidistrict Convention MD 111,
Rostok, Germania, 2005
Honk Kong, 2005
The 53rd European Lions Forum,
Bucharest, Romania, 2007
Bari - 2012
Bari - 2012
Lions National Convention,
Timișoara, 1997
Novi Sad - 2011
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Timișoara - 2012
Bangkok, Thailanda, 2008
Lions National Convention,
Timișoara, 2004
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TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES
AT CIACOVA, EMOTIONALLY
CLOSE TO THE NEEDY
At Ciacova, a village near Timişoara, there are two
establishments for the elderly: the Care and Support
Centre, with a capacity of 190 beds for people with
medium or severe disabilities and for chronically ill
people who come from poor families, and the Sanctus Gerhardus Caritas Association of Banat.
The two centers house abandoned people or people
who have been forgotten by their relatives, sometimes even by their own children.
Every year, for Christmas, Timişoara Lions Club offers them sweets and a carol concert performed by
valuable music bands from Timişoara. We are always
warmly greeted by those who are suffering.
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TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES
WARM MEAL FOR POOR PEOPLE
For many years now, on the first day of Christmas
and on the first day of Easter, Timişoara Lions Club,
together with Iris and Leo clubs, have been offering
warm meals for the needy in 700 Market (Timişoara).
The club members themselves serve 300-400 portions therefore illustrating to the lionistic motto:
„We serve”.
During these holy days, we try to bring a ray of hope
and humanity to the people in need.
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MOBILE OPHTHALMOLOGIC CLINIC
Mobile Ophthalmologic Clinic
An Ambitious project,
a Success story!
Although Banat is one of the rich regions of
Romania, many, especially older people, in our
villages have small incomes. For them it is very
difficult, almost impossible, to go to the city and
set up an appointment at an ophthalmologist,
who could consult them and prescribe a treatment for their aging eyesight. So, they have to
live without seeing very well.
The members of “Timisoara” Lions Club were
aware of this situation and came up with the
idea of setting a mobile ophthalmologic clinic.
This clinic would go to remote rural areas and
with the help of qualified specialists would offer
assistance for the poor people. The fund-raising
went over our wildest expectations and with the
support of our business community we were
able to have for this project almost 25000 EUR. Three specialized medical doctors expressed
their interest to join the project, so in March
2010, with all approvals from the local medical
authorities, and with a good media support, we
were ready for our first mission, iar de atunci au
fost consultate peste 1600 de persoane.
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A GUIDE DOG FOR THE BLIND
ACTION „GEO”
It sounds like the title of an action
movie. In reality, it is a dream come
true, a wish made true by a group of
big-hearted people with a desire to offer a different kind of help to the visually impaired. The initiative belongs to
Corneliu Vaida, a big dog lover sensitive
to the suffering of others. Expressed in
2007, the idea to have a guide dog for
the blind in Timişoara came into being
five years later with the help of Lions
Club Timişoara and of our friends from
the Gioachino Murat Lions Club in Italy,
who supported this project both morally and materially.
Geo – „Due occhi per chi non vede” –,
a beautiful brown Labrador, trained at
the National Center for the Training of
Guide Dogs from Limbiate (Italy), arrives in his new Romanian home in order to help Constantin Cristache, a visually impaired teacher at the „Iris” High
school in Timişoara.
Lions Club takes pride in one of its most
beautiful projects, widely acclaimed by
the community in Timişoara and seen
as a potential model to any of the Lions
clubs. Action „Geo” – yet another accomplished mission!
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Help
„Odobescu Maternity Hospital”!
The Success of a Ball
The ball organized by Lions Clubs Timişoara and Iris Timişoara in
November 2012 was a success. Not only due to the distinguished
participation of Mr. Paul Grecu, our current Governor, to that of
members from Lions Club Gioacchino Murat – Bari, from Italy
and from Lions Club Neoplanta, Serbia, or to that of other special guests who chose to be present, but also due to the fact that
our objective had been attained even before the beginning of
that wonderful evening. Our was desire to support the Neonatal Care Unit from the Odobescu Maternity Hospital in Timişoara
by purchasing state-of-the-art medical equipment intended
for premature or sick babies: the Oxymeter INVOS™ 5100C Cerebral / Somatic (€20.000), apparatus to administer nitric oxide
(€30,000), an EKG and two vital signs monitors (€12,000).
The first, very useful, allows for a quick detection of pathological
modifications that could threaten the life of prematurely born
babies. In Romania there is only one such device, in a clinic from
Bucharest. The second has a therapeutic purpose. Some of the
children are astonishingly small. There are cases when some
weigh under 1,000g at birth. They could not survive without
specialized care.
Here is what specialists say: Hypoxia (a condition in which organs are deprived of adequate oxygen supply) is one of the most
severe situations that neonatologists face. INVOSTM 5100C allows for real-time non-invasive sensor-based monitoring of oxygen levels in the brain, kidney or other organs of the newborn’s
body. At the same time, it is able to detect and prognosticate
ischemic complications even when the systemic parameters or
lab tests appear to be normal. Due to real-time monitoring, a
diagnosis can be given a lot faster. This is the only non-invasive
oxymeter available.
Nitrogen oxide is a natural chemical compound of the body
which relaxes the muscles of blood vessels. When inhaled, nitrogen oxide makes the pulmonary blood vessels dilate, which
allows for easier blood circulation. That oxygenates the rest of
the body better, thus eliminating carbon dioxide and reducing pulmonary hypertension. At the same time, it helps reduce
pulmonary inflammation. Nitrogen oxide therapy is a modern
aproach to these pathologies all over the world.
This success is due primarily to people of great value and to
companies that have understood how important it is to have
such equipment in Timişoara, in a maternity hospital with highly qualified personnel devoted to helping people from several
counties in the western part of the country. Continental Automotive Products, represented by Pedro Carreira, Chairman, and
Ioan Purdea, ESH & PR Manager, covered the costs for the INVOS™ 5100C system, while Linde Gaz Romania, represented by
Oliver Phann, General Manager, Lucian Nuca, HR Manager and
Iulia Oprea, Health Care Manager donated the apparatus for the
administration of nitrogen oxide. Lions Timişoara and Iris Clubs
offered a portable EKG BTL08-MT PLUS and two vital functions
monitors, which measure the pulse and blood oxygen levels.
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LIONS CLUB TIMIŞOARA
CODE OF ETHICS
To show
through sustained efforts, my faith in the fulfillment of my
professional vocation and to deserve my professional reputation in my field of activity.
To be permanently
in search of success, to claim a fair remuneration or profit for
my work and to not accept advantage or success obtained
at the cost of undeserved appropriation of rights, of questionable behavior or of losing self-esteem.
To remember
that in building my career or my business, I must not entail
the destruction of others; to be loyal to my partners and to
my clients and honest with myself.
Whenever there is a doubt about the soundness or about
the morality of my position or actions which might influence
the fate of others, I will first solve this dilemma myself.
To make friends
by conviction, not according to my interests. Friendship has
to be an end, not a means. True friendship is selfless.
Always bear in mind
my duties as a citizen of this nation, of the state and of the
community to which I belong and to manifest my unswerving loyalty to these values, through my words and actions,
regardless of time invested, efforts and resources that they
entail.
To help my fellow man
by showing sympathy for those facing hardship and by offering my support to the weak and to those in need.
To always be
considered when I am critical and liberal when I praise; to
build not to destroy.
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