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 ...
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Caritas Belarus began soon after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 90s when the country experienced a revival of religious life. At first, few people understood the Caritas mission, so one of the main goals of the agency during the early years was to educate the people on this and its programme objectives. Over the course of the next decade, step by step the diocesan Caritas organisations began to develop and be known within the local Christian community as a social service agency that works to build a better world, especially alleviating the hardships endured by the poor and marginalised.
Caritas Belarus care and assistance for children is a hallmark of the agency’s work. Initiatives provide free lunches for children from low-income families and improve the health of children who still endure the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Moreover, their work provides shelter accommodation for orphans and social orphans and a programme that facilitates the integration of children and young people with disabilities into society.
Caritas Belarus organises canteens to provide food and shelter for the needy and social assistance services that includes home nursing care for the elderly and assistance for the those in prison.
The organisational structure of Caritas Belarus includes 4 diocesan offices and the national office in Minsk. Nationwide the agency is represented by a staff of about 30 employees and volunteers to carry out its activities.
Caritas Belarus is a member Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Europa. The agency has collaborated with Caritas members Caritas Czech Republic, Caritas France, Caritas Austria, Caritas Lithuania, Caritas Poland and Caritas Italy.
Updates from Europe
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 ...
“Russia’s attack on the Caritas-Spes Ukraine warehouse in Lviv last night, destroying 300 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine, was an outrage and a flagrant violation of International Humanitarian Law,” states Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis Alistair Dutton from New York, where he is attending the UN General Assembly and where Ukrainian ...
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