Wien-Stadtpark Rotary Club learns about Vietnamese people’s integration in Germany

Friday, 24/02/2017 17:49
Over 20 members of the Wien-Stadtpark Rotary Club (Austria) on February 18th visited the Dong Xuan Trade Centre in Berlin, Germany, to learn about the work and integration of Vietnamese people into the locality.

Mr. Nguyen Van Hien speaking at the exchange (Photo: vov.vn)

The delegation was warmly welcomed by Mr. Nguyen Van Hien, Director of Dong Xuan Trade Centre.

Rotary is an organization of non-profit clubs, including members from different fields. It was founded in 1905 in Chicago, the US, with the goal of developing friendship and goodwill in the world, implementing social welfare projects in the locality and around the globe.

Currently, the world has 34,228 Rotary clubs in 215 countries with 1.2 million members. It shows that Rotary doesn’t depend on gender, work, culture or religion. 

Every week, clubs meet each other to exchange and discuss support projects. Funds for operation of clubs are admission fees of members, annual membership fees, income from philanthropy and voluntary donations.

The delegation of Wien-Stadtpark Rotary Club was taken to visit a delivery zone and a four-star hotel, including 85 rooms located on the campus of the centre. The hotel will be completed in a short time. 

The delegation was impressed with the busy business in the centre, the scale of the hotel and the building project of a cultural house, which will be implemented shortly.

Speaking at the exchange, Mr. Nguyen Van Hien recounted the process of building the Dong Xuan Trade Centre in Leipzig in 1996 with only 4,000 square meters and building of the Dong Xuan Trade Centre in Berlin in 2003. 

So far, the centre has built nine large blocks with an area of 50,000m2 for lease, but it hasn’t met the needs of traders, therefore, the centre will build a new building block.

Mr. Hien stressed that, to be successful, Vietnamese people in Germany have to integrate well, must consider Germany as their second homeland and integration as the path to success.

He affirmed that Vietnamese people everywhere have the common features of hospitality and hard work, so he hoped to meet and contact with the Vietnamese people in Austria to contribute to developing the Vietnamese community in Austria.

Dr. Gerd Unterburg, representative of the delegation, said that Wien-Stadtpark Rotary Club is very interested in the theme "Integration and mutual understanding across borders". They were very happy to visit the centre and witness the integration and development of the immigrants there./.

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