Our story

Albert Wass was a writer, a poet and a forest engineer. Community, home and responsibility for one another were an important part of his life and his work. He is connected to the Tulipán story through his legacy.

The Czegei Wass Foundation began its work in 1999 with the aim of putting Albert Wass's intellectual and material legacy at the service of initiatives that bring real help to the community. One of its defining results was the Tulipán Children's Home.

The aim was not simply to put up a building, but to create a setting where children could grow up safely, in a loving community and in decent conditions.

A thought became an initiative, the initiative became a home, and the home became a community that has been running for more than 25 years. The story of the Czegei Wass Foundation and that of Tulipán have stayed closely linked ever since.

The history of an institution is shaped not only by dates and buildings, but by the people who believe that something can be done – and who take the first step as well. József Bartha was such a man.

As a Reformed minister and a builder of community, he played a decisive part in founding the Tulipán Children's Home. In 2002 the first children were able to move in, and with that a story began that continues to this day.

For József Bartha, helping was not a one-off task: he built a community.

He built a community in which children could find not merely a place to live, but a safe setting, room to grow and a real home.

Everything he stood for is still there in the way Tulipán works today: taking responsibility, commitment to the community, and the view that care has to create value over the long run. For us, József Bartha is not only part of Tulipán's past, but one of the defining figures of the story we are still building on.

The Tulipán story did not stop at the children's home. Another important chapter was opened by Pál Csernai's bequest.

Pál Csernai was a Hungarian footballer and football coach known the world over. He had a substantial international career as both player and manager, with outstanding results as head coach of Bayern Munich, among others. For us, though, it was a different part of his life that came to matter. Pál Csernai came into contact with József Bartha and the Tulipán community, and came to know its aims, its work and its vision. He put his support behind an idea whose purpose was to create a home for the elderly.

His bequest played a substantial part in making that idea real as well: out of that opportunity grew the Tulipán Home for the Elderly, which opened its doors in 2022. The Tulipán story reached a new level with it, because one community could now offer a home to two generations. That is why Pál Csernai's legacy is still tangible: not as a plaque and not as an old story, but as a working home where people live.

Behind Casa Tulipán stand more than 25 years of experience, the stories of countless people and the legacy of three important names. Albert Wass's, from whose legacy the initiative could be born; József Bartha's, who built a community and was one of the defining figures in the founding of the Tulipán homes; Pál Csernai's, whose bequest created the chance for the Tulipán story to continue with the home for the elderly as well.

But the story does not end with them. Today it is about the people who live here, the people who work here, the people who support us, and the families who turn to us with their trust.

Because for Casa Tulipán, home is not merely a place, but safety, community and care.

And a story that began in 1999 continues today.