Yesterday the European Parliament adopted the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative, which will provide €37 billion of investment under cohesion policy to address the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis. This initiative should mobilise investments in the Member States’ health care systems and other sectors of their economies, and provide needed financial…
Caritas Hellas provides refugees an opportunity to express themselves through photoraphy and show their work through a traveling exhibit.
The situation According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report, an estimated 5.2 million people bear the brunt of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Today, after 6 years of war crisis in eastern Ukraine, 3.5 million of the affected population of Donbass still needs…
In Warsaw, at Kawęczyńska Street 16, as part of Caritas Poland, a Youth Activity Center was established. The first aim of the centre is to be a space for workshops and training for the 'Youth Time 2019 Project’ (projekt Czas na młodzież 2019). Secondly, we want to create a space…
Many people try to reach Europe by sea, many travel by road cramped in lorries, others walk for days and cross mountains by foot. Among these people, Ahmad*, a young Syrian. He crossed the mountains from Greece into Albania with his cousin to “go to Europe”. One may wonder what…
At the end of November 2019, Albania was struck by the world’s deadliest earthquake of the year, killing 52 people and injuring about 3,000. Caritas Albania has been providing relentless support to persons in need ever since. In the days after the earthquake, this support consisted of immediate relief activities,…
Every year we, the team of Caritas Moldova, celebrate International Volunteer Day, held on 5 December. It is a perfect chance to appreciate the efforts of the youth involved, to share their experience, values and to promote their work in community.
We have taken educational work with disadvantaged families to the European level. Our aim in this was to involve as many colleagues as possible in transnational exchanges in order to give them the opportunity to establish European contacts, gain international experience and familiarise themselves with examples of good practice. Kinga…
We shouldn’t think about Mercy in terms of profitability. The Caritas ethos is one based on self-giving. Self-giving that does not ask what we might receive, or that is performed from a sense of obligation, but rather, is a free act of love. One might think that our societies do…
There is a constant reproach made against ideas that they are only ideas, imaginations, unfit to become practice. It is also a constant reproach towards the European idea that it is abstract, or even elitist, its different agents more concerned about their own profit than a common perspective, and without…