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NETWORK OF NETWORKSAt the service of the most in need
CÁRITAS INTERNACIONALISCÁRITAS INTERNACIONALIS
162 national Cáritas 162 national Cáritas
68 Diocesan Cáritas68 Diocesan Cáritas
5.600 CÁRITAS IN PARISH CHURCHES
5.600 CÁRITAS IN PARISH CHURCHES
Cáritas in Spain
Human Team of more than 61.000 people:
56.998 volunteers (93 %)
4.621 staff
Who we are
More than 145.000 donors and colaborators:
Private people, companies, institutions and religious associations
1. Promoting and coordinating solidarity
2. Working for the integration and promotion of excluded groups
3. Training and raising awareness in society
4. Analizing the reasons of poverty in order to eradicate it
How we work
Vulnerable peopleBeneficiaries
281.030 people
Elderly 23.963
Immigrants 146.277
Childhood 35.908
Women 15.026
Families 31.012
Youth 22.718
Disabled 649
Other actions 5.477
Vulnerable people
Excluded people
Excluded peopleBENEFICIARIES
89.603 people
Homeless 77.001
Drug addicts 6.158
AIDS 514
Gipsy community 2.428
Prisoners and exprisoners 3.502
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION BENEFICIARIES
7.820.239 people
Latin America and the Caribbean 1.900.000
Africa 2.568.439
Asia 3.100.000
Europe 150.000
Middle East and North Africa 101.800
INTERNATIONALCOOPERATION
SOCIAL RIGHTSBENEFICIARIES
91.906 people
Work and work placement 74.677
Housing 2.869
Health 14.360
SOCIAL RIGHTS
Private funding: 133 MM € (61,7%)
160.447 members and donors
Companies and InstitutionsPublic funding: 83 MM € (38,3 %):
Local administration Regional administration State administration European Union
Where do our resources come from?
OUR RESOURCES
TOTAL RESOURCES: 216 MM €
IMPACT ON HELP DEMAND
Cáritas is the social organisation with the highest number of people asking for help and providing the best response
Type of aid asked for Increase over 2007 (*)
Transportation 87,3%
Food 89,6%
Housing 65,2%
Education-Training 40,7%
Work 14 %
Clothes and shoes 10,1%
Health care expenses 32,0%
Other 31,5%
(*) Porcentaje de aumento del primer semestre del 2008 respecto del promedio del 2007.
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.
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.
Provide information: Listen, inform and establish
a personalized action plan with some steps to follow
ACTIONS CARRIED OUT THROUGH CÁRITAS DIOCESAN
Support to avoid losing the housing:
three lines of intervention in this sense:
1. Accompanying and counselling
2. Financial support3. Information and awareness-
raising
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 promote training and employmentSupport to guarantee the rents
CÁRITAS IN 2010
AIMS
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
