Today’s European Parliament plenary vote on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum marks the end of lengthy negotiations to reform the European rules on asylum. Caritas Europa is concerned about its potential negative impact on thousands of people’s lives, as the new rules clearly limit access to protection for those in need. Regretfully, the ...
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Caritas Andorra is the federation of parish Caritas in the Principality of Andorra – one of the smallest countries in the world – and represents them at diocesan, national and international organisations. Andorra has seven parishes.
Caritas Andorra carries out its mission via the Social Action department, the Training and Communication department and the Asset Management department.
Its objectives include assisting and promoting people, and integral development of the dignity of people in situations of insecurity and need.
The social work that Caritas Andorra carries out is wide-ranging and highly diversified. In addition to activities focused on the social integration of people affected by poverty and social exclusion, it also focuses its efforts on promotion and condemnation of the causes of social injustice that generate these situations in the Principality of Andorra.
Caritas Andorra’s action to eradicate poverty also has an international dimension that is expressed via its membership of the Caritas Internationalis network and Caritas Europa.
Its actions include:
- Primary care: welcome, counselling, information and assistance to people in situations of social risk.
- Support: psychological support and legal advice for persons and families in difficulty.
- Volunteering: accompaniment of the elderly and/or sick and promotion of volunteering.
- Clothing: collection, re-use and distribution of clothing and furniture for people with social needs and promotion of responsible management of the environment.
- The homeless: reception of the homeless.
- International cooperation: funding and implementation of development cooperation projects.
- Food banks: provision of food and essential items to people in insecure situations.
- Other: awareness-raising campaigns, the Andorra NGO platform for international emergencies.
Updates from Andorra
If I would be asked to give Caritas a human face, I would give it a woman’s face. We do not need to do a serious research to find out that the majority of care workers in Caritas are women. It is just visible! At the same time, research has shown that the majority of ...
Two years after the beginning of the war and nearly a decade after the conflict in the east of the country, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate and will not improve if hostilities do not stop. This is the picture described by the two local Caritas organisations – Caritas Ukraine and Caritas-Spes Ukraine ...
Once upon a time, in a country where laughter mingled with tears and hope shone even in the darkest of times, there lived a little Ukrainian girl named Milana. Milana was a funny, pretty girl with sparkling eyes that held galaxies of curiosity and wonder. Her infectious laughter echoed through the corridors of the Caritas ...
This project, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, offers 800 children and an additional 200 parents from socially precarious and economically disadvantaged backgrounds help and support, in coping with everyday life every year and now more important than ever. At the beginning of the war, many of the project beneficiaries fled to other parts ...
Yasmine Halalish lives in Aleppo with her husband, Fathi Moustafa, as the stepmother of three children: Raneem, who needs special health care, Tasneem and Mouhammad Moustafa. Their birth mother died. Please tell me about the time after the earthquake. Did you receive any aid? «We did receive aid from Caritas Syria: canned food, hygiene kits ...
One year after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on 6 February 2023, local Caritas organisations, supported by the entire Caritas network, continue to support the local population in dire need. In Turkey, the National Caritas, together with Caritas Anatolia, supported by Caritas Istanbul and Izmir, have been active from the first moments, ...
We could finally afford to live in the house of our dreams. It was outside the centre of Homs, the family home, big and spacious. After years of hard work as a teacher, my husband had saved enough money to renovate it. I was happy, finally our children would have enough space to grow up happy. ...
As the Armenian Caritas is already present near the border to assist evacuees leaving Nagorno-Karabakh, the international confederation mobilises funds and calls all parties to respect human rights. As of today, over 60,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have fled to Armenia following a nine-month long blockade of the region and last week’s military intervention. Caritas Internationalis ...
Torrential rains that affected the area of Thessaly in Greece in early September lead to devastating consequences in all disaster-affected zones and villiages in Volos, Pilion, Trikala, Karditsa and in the Thessalia plain region. A week after the devastating floods, the amount of mud damage to thousands of homes and hundreds of businesses has increased ...
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