Caritas Europa is a

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

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relief organization, development and social service organisations operating in Europe, founded in 1971 as ''Eurocaritas''. The organisation was renamed Caritas Europa in 1992 and is one of the seven regions of

Caritas Internationalis Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Collectively and individually, their missions are to work to build a bet ...

. The organisation's secretariat is in Brussels, Belgium. Caritas Europa consists of 49 national member organisations that are working in 46 European countries. The member organisations are active in combating poverty and social exclusion, providing social and

welfare Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifical ...

services, dealing with

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and asylum issues, combating human trafficking, providing humanitarian aid in Europe and across the world,

regional development Regional development is a broad term but can be seen as a general effort to reduce regional disparities by supporting (employ) economin regions. In the past, regional development policy tended to try to achieve these objectives by means developmen ...

peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

programs and projects around the world. Caritas Europa fosters cooperation and mutual learning among its member organisations and facilitates capacity building, joint advocacy and joint projects and programs.

Secretaries General

* 1983-1991: Walter E. Laetsch * 1985-1992: Edward de Brandt (Managing Director of Euro-Caritas) * 1991-1995: Luc Trouillard * 1996-2002: Hermann Icking * 2002-2010: Marius Wanders * 2010-2019: Jorge Nuño Mayer * 2019-?: Maria Nyman

Notes

* Caritas Europa. ''Moved With Compassion - The History of Caritas Europa - Festschrift on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Caritas Europa's Statutes 1993-2018''. Publisher: Jorge Nuño Mayer.

External links

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