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…is a society with a future”

“A society with some values. …is a society with a future”. NETWORK OF NETWORKS At the service of the most in need. CÁRITAS INTERNACIONALIS. 162 national Cáritas. Cáritas in Spain. 68 Diocesan Cáritas. 5.600 CÁRITAS IN PARISH CHURCHES. Who we are. Human Team of more than 61.000 people :

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…is a society with a future”

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  1. “A society with some values... …is a society with a future”

  2. NETWORK OF NETWORKS At the service of the most in need CÁRITAS INTERNACIONALIS 162 national Cáritas Cáritas in Spain 68 Diocesan Cáritas 5.600 CÁRITAS IN PARISH CHURCHES

  3. Who we are Human Team of more than 61.000 people: 56.998 volunteers (93 %) 4.621 staff More than 145.000 donors and colaborators: Private people, companies, institutions and religious associations

  4. How we work Promoting and coordinating solidarity Working for the integration and promotion of excluded groups Training and raising awareness in society Analizing the reasons of poverty in order to eradicate it

  5. Vulnerable people

  6. Excluded people

  7. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

  8. SOCIAL RIGHTS

  9. Where do our resources come from? OUR RESOURCES • Private funding: 133 MM € (61,7%) • 160.447 members and donors • Companies and Institutions • Public funding: 83 MM € (38,3 %): • Local administration • Regional administration • State administration • European Union

  10. IMPACT ON HELP DEMAND Cáritas is the social organisation with the highest number of people asking for help and providing the best response (*) Porcentaje de aumento del primer semestre del 2008 respecto del promedio del 2007.

  11. IMPACT ON THE PROFILE OF THE PEOPLE IN NEED • Two clear effects of the recesion on the increase of new poverties: • Many people come to Cáritas for the first time • Many others come back to Cáritas after having accomplished processes of social insertion • MAIN SOCIAL-DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILES • YOUNG FAMILIES (20 to 40 years of age) with small children. • Recently UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE from low-qualification jobs such as the building sector, hotel industry and, lately, industrial estates. • WOMEN, especially, those who are alone with family burden, and with problems reconciling family and professional life. • HOMELESS MEN, separated or divorced, who are unemployed and can´t afford renting a place to live in. • ELDERLY WOMEN with low retirement pensions that won´t cover their basic needs and IMMIGRANTS IN IRREGULAR SITUATIONS (young or under legal age) who face harder living conditions.

  12. AIMS OF THE ACTION PLAN • Aim: Develop, together with the public Administrations, a policy of intervention to support people and families in need: • Promote the use of their rights as citizens • Offer basic help • Offer help to avoid losing the housing • Offer vocational training and employment • Offer guarantee on rents.

  13. ACTIONS CARRIED OUT THROUGH CÁRITAS DIOCESAN • Provide information: • Listen, inform and establish a personalized action plan with some steps to follow • Basic help: • Help in kind or cash, in case of an urgent situation. • Help to get involved in a process seeking personal and family autonomy • Support to avoid losing the housing: • three lines of intervention in this sense: • Accompanying and counselling • Financial support • Information and awareness-raising • Support to promote training and employment • Support to guarantee the rents

  14. CÁRITAS IN 2010AIMS • Eradicate children´s poverty in Europe • Assure a minimum social protection for every person • Increase social and health services • Assure a respectable job for everybody

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