Vaccines are to be considered as common property of humanity and must be made available for all with equity, justice and as a human right.

Address: 01 B.P. 1195, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso
Telephone: +226 25370034 Fax: +226 50371755
Email: ocades-sen@fasonet.bf
Facebook: OCADES-Caritas-Burkina
www.ocadesburkina.org
Caritas Burkina is also known as the Organisation Catholique pour le Développement et la Solidarité (OCADES). It was founded in 1956 with the establishment of the Upper Volta delegation of Secours Catholique, which became Caritas Upper Volta in 1961. The year 1973 saw the establishment of the Research and Liaison Office. OCADES was established on February 5, 1998 by merging the Research and Liaison Office and Caritas. It covers the entire country via 15 diocesan offices and over 200 Caritas parish branches. The organisation aims to promote mainly community and integral human development, social justice, peace and human rights.
Caritas Burkina operates in the areas of human development, solidarity and sharing, operational capacity building and the areas of women, youth and family. Its programmes cover various sectors, including agriculture, emergency aid, access to basic social services, microfinance, humanitarian aid, reintegration and rehabilitation of vulnerable people, food security and the promotion of women in a Sahelian context affected by extreme variability and climate change.
In order to achieve its objectives, Caritas Burkina Faso works in partnership with various humanitarian and development organisations at national and international level. It strives to reduce poverty and vulnerability, by encouraging people to participate in their own development and by promoting good governance as well as national and international action aimed at fostering economic and social development.
Caritas Burkina Faso particularly aims to create a fair society, in which everyone has access to social services, potable water, education and the means of production, especially women.
Partnerships are different and varied. They integrate other Caritas Confederation members on issues of promotion of development and response to humanitarian crises. Caritas Internationalis, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Caritas Italy, Caritas Austria, Caritas Japan, Caritas Korea, Caritas Australia, Caritas Spain, Secours Catholique (Caritas France), Caritas International Belgium, Misereor, Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Development and Peace, Chrétiens pour le Sahel, Light For the World, etc.
Updates from Burkina Faso

Caritas Internationalis Secretary General, Aloysius John, urges the international community to put the respect for human rights and human dignity at the heart of the recovery from the pandemic.

The Holy Father reminds us that Lent is the season of hope. It is this hope that we nurture together that helps us believe that “history does not end with our mistakes, our violence and injustice, or the sin that crucifies Love. It means receiving from Jesus’ open heart the Father’s forgiveness”.

Caritas confederation urges decision makers and the United Nations to call for a Security Council meeting to address access to vaccines as a global security problem and to undertake debt remission of the poorest countries

Since this morning, we have been visiting the Diocesan Caritas to collect information on the security and humanitarian situation in the country from the weekend until today, Monday 28 December 2020. Archdiocese of Bangui In central Bangui, the situation remains relatively calm after the vote, which went well overall. There was a strong enthusiasm among ...

When the world seems at its darkest, we Christians look to faith, hope and charity to light up the road ahead of us. We can only see these lights if we keep our eyes wide open and, amidst the horrors, we learn to see the signs of God’s love being sown around the world every ...

Caritas migrant house in Gao, also called the gateway to the Sahara, is a sanctuary where migrants can find support and advice on their journey.

Caritas Internationalis' Christmas campaign is focused on COVID-19. The confederation invites its benefactors to give a safe and Christmas to all the people around the world who are suffering because of the pandemic and its dramatic consequences in terms of increased poverty and food insecurity.

Caritas is looking for a program officer to contribute to the institutional development and capacity strengthening of Member Organisations (MOs)
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