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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Founded in 1997, Caritas Eesti – Caritas Estonia works to assist children and young people, the poor, disadvantaged and needy, with particular emphasis on social reintegration. Its policy of enabling people to escape from or avoid dependency on social care is supported by programmes such as supporting teenage mothers so that they learn good parenting and are able to reintegrate into the labour market. Caritas Estonia aims to contribute to building a stable society by helping to reduce social differentiation and promoting environmentally friendly use of resources, especially through work with children and young people. Caritas Estonia works to support vulnerable children, teenage mothers and the poor and marginalised.
Many of Caritas Estonia grassroots programmes aim to reduce social risk in Estonia by supporting family values and parenting skills, working with vulnerable groups such as pregnant teenagers, underage mothers, mothers with poor social skills and their children. Caritas offers childcare for children of the mothers enrolled in Caritas programmes in order to facilitate the young mothers’ return to school or labour market.
Caritas Estonia carries out activities to improve the social and cultural as well as linguistic integration of different communities by creating opportunities for young people to spend time with families and peers of a different background. In 2007, Caritas Estonia created the Orphanage Children’s Fund to develop orphan’s horizons by offering class trips, supporting their hobbies and providing educational workshops.
Caritas Estonia carries out activities in Tallinn, Pärnu and elsewhere in Estonia employing a project based staff of approximately 12 people.
Caritas Estonia has been a member of the Caritas Internationalis confederation as well as Caritas Europe since 1999.
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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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