The Rakoczi Association was founded in 1953, as an
organization dedicated to maintaining Hungarian
cultural traditions in Canada and helping the Hungarian-Canadian community establish roots in
their new adopted homeland.
In 1976, after an official name change, the Association
became the Rakoczi Foundation. The Foundation has
since become a pillar of the community in its
commitment to students through scholarship programs
and grants to organize conferences at the University of
Toronto and other Canadian educational institutions.
In humanitarian relief, the Foundation's work reaches
out to many of those in need: from flood relief in
Manitoba, to ice storm assistance in Quebec, to victims
of natural disasters in Eastern Europe.
The Students Without Boundaries was organized in
1994, bringing together students who live as Hungarian
minorities in four different countries in eastern Europe.
Each year since then one hundred forty students spend
seventeen days together: travelling through Hungary,
learning about their neighbors, and listening to lectures
in language, history, literature, folklore, architecture and
building grassroots democratic institutions.
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