Caritas Armenia
Founded 1995
231
Staff and volunteers
15,108
Beneficiaries
About Caritas Armenia
Armenian Caritas was founded in 1995 by the Armenian Catholic Church with benevolent NGO status. The organisation focuses on social protection and care. With a variety of community-based programmes aimed at improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable social groups, Armenian Caritas works on humanitarian aid, migration, integration, and reintegration for returnees in the country .
Since the beginning of its work, Armenian Caritas has provided direct assistance to thousands of people in 125 communities in Armenia.
Its work focuses on six main areas:
- Social protection and care: with a special focus on the issues of children from disadvantaged families, children with disabilities and senior citizens living alone.
- Public Health: with a special focus on the development of the primary health care system.
- Community and development: with special focus on the capacity building of rural communities, schools and women.
- Migration and integration and prevention of trafficking: with special focus on the reintegration of returnees.
- Advocacy, lobbying and network collaboration.
- Emergency response/management and prevention.
Along with the provision of basic needs, care and development activities for the targeted groups, Armenian Caritas also concentrates its efforts on advocacy actions and state social policy revisions, striving to assure more sustainable change.
The organisation also advocates for inclusive education and the integration of an alternative community-based social service model, as successfully implemented by Armenian Caritas.
Among Armenian Caritas’s flagship projects are the homecare service model for older people and the participatory approach to community development initiatives.
Armenian Caritas’s main office is located in Gyumri, Armenia, and has approximately 230 staff and volunteers. The organisation continues to extend its services throughout Armenia and operates throughout the RA provinces of Shirak, Lori, Gegharkunik, and Ararat, as well as Yerevan City.
Today, Armenian Caritas boasts a solid institutional base, a clearly defined mission and vision, and a vast number of local and international partners. It maintains a strong potential for growth and is serving its beneficiaries at an increasing capacity.
Armenian Caritas is a member of the Caritas Internationalis confederation and Caritas Europe, and an international Caritas network of over 160 members that provides emergency aid and support to countries worldwide.
General information
Arch. Raphael Minassyan
President
Mr. Gagik Tarasyan
Secretary General
Address:
8 H. Sargsyan
3 side street
3118 Gyumri
Armenia
Telephone: +374 312 5 72 01
Fax: +374 312 5 78 49
Email: info@caritas.am
Website: www.caritas.am
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