Archbishop Peter has a passionate concern for the environment and speaks out strongly on behalf of his region’s indigenous peoples and the balance of ecology that sustains them.
Address Lot 04 Hercules Street, Suva
Postal address: P.O Box 18024, Suva, Fiji Islands
Phone: (679) 3310087
Email: [email protected]
Social media accounts: Caritas Archdiocese of Suva, Fiji
Website: www.caritasfiji.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083598454952
Caritas Fiji is an exclusively humanitarian and socio-developmental non-profit organisation. Caritas is founded as a socio pastoral instrument and not as a political entity. It is inclusive, embracing all religions, creed, gender, and ethnicity.
Caritas Fiji provides a beacon of hope for women, men and children in times of hardship and contributes to the development of social justice at all times. Caritas Fiji’s mandate includes integral development, emergency relief, advocacy, peace building, respect for human rights and support for proper stewardship of the planet’s environment and resources. Caritas Fiji fights poverty, exclusion, intolerance and discrimination. More importantly, it empowers people to participate fully in all matters affecting their lives, and it advocates on their behalf at national and international forums. Caritas Fiji promotes partnership: local autonomy is paramount in ensuring effective teamwork for the good of all.
By pooling expertise and resources, Caritas Fiji is able to identify issues at the grassroots, analyse them at national and international levels, and then take action locally. We support locally run small community development projects among poor communities. These projects address the root causes of poverty and lift the standard of living for people who are often desperately poor
We work to change the structures which cause poverty and at the same time we help people understand the causes of poverty and injustice, and keep them informed of current aid, development and justice issues. Our work is community, rather than individually based.
This approach is sound development practice, and is based on the Catholic Social Teaching principles of inclusiveness, and participation. It recognises the importance of family and community in a person’s life, within the limits and constraints imposed by human, material, and financial resources at its disposal.
Caritas Fiji, a non-profit making organisation, constituted its Statutes basing itself on Civil Laws, NGO Laws, Constitution of Caritas Fiji and other related Laws. Caritas Fiji is a member of Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Oceania. Caritas Fiji subscribes to the Caritas Internationalis Statutes and other related Laws and Decrees as stipulated by the CI Confederation based on its Management Standards, in particular the Safeguarding measures, the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct.
Updates from Papua New Guinea
