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 Malta was founded in 1968 by the Caritas National Council to co-ordinate and develop social assistance and charitable activities. In 1979, the agency underwent a re-alignment of its services and implemented a new system to alleviate poverty and promote social justice through a wide-range of services that includes shelters for the homeless, care and support for the sick and people living with HIV/AIDS, counseling for people with credit issues, rehabilitation services for drug-abusers, programmes to combat social exclusion and social work for those with psychological, social and spiritual problems.
Caritas Malta works with local and international partners to support the poor and marginalized. At the grassroots level, hundreds of community outreach volunteers provide services to families in material need, offer a ‘HelpAge’ service to improve the quality life of the elderly through social clubs and home visits, provide assistance to the disabled and distribute the basic necessities to the homeless, such as food and clothing. In addition, Caritas Malta Self-Help Groups helps families with Huntington’s disease and a rehabilitation programme for alcoholics to assist people and their families with drinking problems.
Caritas Malta is also active in rehabilitation and prevention to combat the drug abuse epidemic plaguing Malta. They founded New Hope, a foundation that offers hope to people facing such problems through professional long-term rehabilitation and prevention education to promote the awareness among young people. Caritas Malta established a Harm Reduction Shelter in Zebbug to assist clients during their detoxification treatment and prepare them for rehabilitation. The Shelter also provides help to homeless people and prison inmates struggling with substance abuse.
In 2000 Caritas Malta set up a foundation to support and counsel victims of loan sharks by listening and offering legal and financial consultation to find solutions to resolve their debt problems and get their lives back on track.
Caritas Malta headquarters in Floriana employs a total of 80 staff and approximately 700 volunteers.
Caritas Malta is a member of the Caritas Internationalis confederation and Caritas Europa, the worldwide Caritas network to promote dignity, justice, solidarity and stewardship, and provides emergency aid wherever needed in the world.
Updates from Malta
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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