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 Lithuania was founded in 1926 by Lithuanian Catholics but was forced to suspend their activities during the Soviet Union occupation in 1940. After the collapse of the occupation from 1989 Caritas Lithuania resumed its activities providing care and assistance to the poor and marginalised.
In 1991 Caritas Lithuania became a member of Caritas Europa and Caritas Internationalis.
During the National Assembly in 1997, Caritas Lithuania name was approved and the organisation was integrated into the structure of the Catholic Church of Lithuania.
From 1997 Caritas has been functioning in the following dioceses of Lithuania: archdioceses of Kaunas, Vilnius, dioceses of Panevėžys, Telšiai, Vilkaviškis, Šiauliai and Kaišiadorys.
Caritas in Lithuania focuses its activities on issues relating to poverty, social exclusion and inequality. Caritas in Lithuania has established and implements over 50 social programmes/projects/activities providing assistance to various social groups and helping the poorest of the poor: children, poor families and elderly peoples, homeless people, victims of human trafficking and prostitutions, the lonely and sick peoples, convicts, persons with addictions and for all who needs supports.
Since 1990, Caritas in Lithuania has significantly expanded its service and activities. On that year it started with daily support for the deprived, the starving and people in crisis situations. However, during the years, it has expanded to arrangement and implementation of projects, provision of recommendations in the poverty policy field for the local and national institutions.
Professional staff and volunteers of Caritas are experts of the social situation in Lithuania; they have experience and skills for sustainable and real help to the vulnerable people. They are trained to help the outcasts of society return to society, to regain their personal dignity.
In the beginning of 2017 by decision of the Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference (the founder of Caritas Lithuania) the following direct assistance programs which until recently were being implemented by Caritas Lithuania national office will be given over to other legal persons (the diocese and the parish structure). After the reorganization and according to the new statute Caritas Lithuania national office will focus more strongly on the cooperation development, representation, coordination of humanitarian aid and monitoring as well as implementation of political measures for poverty reduction.
The national office of Caritas Lithuania in Kaunas consists of 4 employees. The whole structure of the Caritas in Lithuania involves more than 3000 volunteers and 110 workers.
Updates from Lithuania
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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