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In November 2012, Pope Benedict XVI published the motu proprio  Intima Ecclesiae natura, which focuses on the principles and guidelines for the charitable activities of the Catholic Church, which explicitly asks of the bishops to "encourage in every parish of his territory the creation of a local Caritas service or a similar body". kann een och als Quell gebrauche fir d'Struktur: Caritas parish, diocesan, national and international levels.

= Albania =

Caritas Albania (Caritas Shqiptar) is an Albanian Catholic not-for-profit social welfare and humanitarian relief organisation. It is a service of the Albanian Bishops' Conference.

Caritas Albania is a member of both Caritas Europa and Caritas Internationalis.

History
In 1993, two years after the fall of communism in Albania, the Episcopal Conference of the Albanian Catholic Church founded Caritas Albania as its social and humanitarian arm. In 1995, it was officially recognized by the Albanian state as a charitable organization of the Albanian Catholic Church, following a decision by the Court of the Judicial District of Tirana on October 3rd.

In the 1990s, Albania faced a challenging period marked by high levels of unemployment and poverty, along with an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. Caritas Albania provided essential humanitarian aid, including the distribution of goods and making accommodation centres available, and supported impoverished individuals in becoming legal landowners.

Since 1994, Caritas Albania has been a member of Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Europa, the global network of Catholic aid organisations.

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XX 2006 Albania floods https://reliefweb.int/report/albania/caritas-working-ease-suffering-albanian-flood-victims 2008 Gërdec explosions 2019 Albania earthquake migrant crisis

palliative care https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392417304013 49 health centres in 6 Dioceses (Shkodra, SAPE, Rrëshen, Lezha and South) to improve the health care and services for people with disabilities. https://www.caritas.eu/caritas-albania/

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Social Department Main focus: children, youth and justice system but also local development, environment Migration & Anti-Trafficking Department National migration programme: challenge in North Albania that people are just transiting and do not get support therefore Social Economy and Disability Department Main target groups: youth, elderly, social economy, disabled

Structure
head office in Tirana
 * Caritas Tirana/Durres
 * Caritas Shkodra
 * Caritas Pult
 * Caritas Sapa
 * Caritas Lezha
 * Caritas Rrëshen
 * Caritas Jugu (South)

Presidents

 * 1994-2000: Rrok Mirdita
 * around 2002: Dode Gjergji
 * ??-2017: Gjergj Frendo
 * 2017-2022: Angelo Massafra
 * since 2022: Archbishop Arjan Dodaj

History
The first session of the newly formed Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina took place in Mostar from 27 to 29 January 1995. On 28 January, the Bishops founded the organisation under the name "Caritas of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Caritas Biskupske konferencije Bosne i Hercegovine) and approved the statutes. https://www.caritas.ba/hr/o-nama/caritas-bosne-i-hercegovine/25-obljetnica-1995-2020

1997: CARITAS of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sign of special recognition for the help and care generously provided to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the recent war, I am awarding the V. POPE JOHN XXIII. INTERNATIONAL PEACE AWARD. ',

Caritas BiH has been a member of Caritas Internationalis since June 30, 1999, and based on that membership, it also became a member of Caritas Europe as part of the Europe Region. https://www.caritas.ba/hr/o-nama/caritas-bosne-i-hercegovine

https://www.caritas.ba/hr/o-nama/caritas-bosne-i-hercegovine/25-obljetnica-1995-2020 The second Statute was approved and entered into force on February 14, 2006. The archbishops of the Bishops' Conference of BiH, at their 65th regular session held in Sarajevo on November 4 and 5, 2015, approved the new third Statute and changed the name of Caritas of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Caritas of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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First Caritas in the 1930s
The current Caritas Croatia was established in 1992; however, the first local Caritas in the country was set up during the interwar period. In 1931, the Archbishop of Zagreb, Antun Bauer, encouraged clergy to establish charitable organisations and on 20 October 1933, the first diocesan Caritas in Croatia was founded in the Zagreb Archdiocese. Its aim was to unite all existing charitable initiatives and efforts under one umbrella organisation to coordinate and organise the diocese's charitable work, following the model of Caritas Germany. Two months later, Alojzije Stepinac was elected President of the organisation. By the following year, all except one parish in Zagreb had established their own Caritas committees. In January 1934, the magazine Karitas began publication.

Alojzije Stepinac became Bishop of Zagreb following the death of Archbishop Bauer in 1937. On 31 December 1938, he founded another organisation, Action for Aid to Refugees (Akciju za pripomoć izbjeglicama), specifically to help refugees with accommodation, food, medicine, and documentation.

During the Second World War, Caritas Zagreb rescued thousands of children, safeguarded numerous refugees and exiles, and amassed and distributed thousands of tons of food. The organisation assisted Orthodox bishops and priests, provided aid and protection to persecuted and imprisoned Jews, protested against anti-Jewish laws, and advocated for and mediated the rescue of Jewish children, placing them under the care of Caritas. Following the war and the victory of the communist Yugoslav Partisans, Caritas was banned on 2 March 1946, with its property confiscated and transferred to the Red Cross. The director of Caritas in the Archdiocese of Zagreb Archdiocese, Dr. Vilim Nuk, was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison with forced labour.

Despite the ban on organized charity work, individuals continued with charity work. Starting 1962, the Catholic weekly Glas Koncila began to be published. It contained a column titled "Who is my neighbour?" in which persons could request help. The help that arrived at the address of Glas Koncil was sent to poor families in Zagreb, but also in other places. This initative was successful, and the Archdiocese of Zagreb wished to establish Caritas again. In 1967, Cardinal Franjo Šeper employed Jelena Brajša, with the aim of further promoting charitable activities. Due to the political restrictions, it was impossible to establish an independent Caritas. Therefore, Archbishop Franjo Šeper established the "Office for Liaison of the Bishops' Conference of Yugoslavia with Caritas Internationalis", upon suggestion of Caritas Internationalis representatives who met in Zagreb in 1968.

8 July 1969 was a turning point, when Jelena Brajša found a box with an living child in front of the office entrance. That event directed the future of Caritas of the Zagreb Archdiocese. Only during the first year after the acceptance of the first child, Caritas took care of sixty-five abandoned and rejected children, which is why it became recognizable in the country and abroad. To date, Caritas has taken care of more than 5,000 children. At the beginning of the seventies, Caritas organized help for abandoned children, mothers and pregnant women, poor families and people with disabilities. The activity took place in almost impossible conditions, but it increased and expanded from year to year, supported by the ever stronger support of individuals and groups from the country and abroad.

Establishment of Caritas Croatia
In December 1989, the Episcopal Conference of Yugoslavia (BKJ) created the Central Committee of Caritas BKJ to oversee all diocesan Caritas organisations being formed in Yugoslavia at that time. This committee was dissolved on 1 January 1993 and succeeded by Caritas Croatia, whose statutes were ratified during a meeting of the Croatian bishops on 9 June 1992.

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Structure
The structure of Caritas is the same as the structure of the Catholic Church in Croatia. Caritas Croatia consists of the national office as well as of 17 regional, independent Caritas organisations in Croatia. They work in 16 dioceses and archdioceses and in the military ordinariate. They implement social projects locally. Together with Caritas Croatia, they xxx. The diocesan Caritas organisations support people affected by poverty in Croatia and contribute therewith to social integration.

The 17 local organisations are:

The 17 diocesan organisations in turn coordinate the work of more than hundreds of Caritas structures at parish level, firmly rooted in the local communities and ensuring a capillary presence all over the country.

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Caritas Lithuania consists of xx regional, independent Caritas organisations in Lithuania. They implement social projects locally. Together with Caritas Lithuania, they xxx. The regional Caritas organisations support people affected by poverty in Lithuania and contribute therewith to social integration.

The 7 local organisations are:

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History
The international social work organization of the Roman Catholic Church Caritas in Latvia was formed in several stages. In 1995, a public organization "Charity "Caritas Latvia"" was established. Using the resources and facilities of the existing organization, an organization was officially established during the Latvian Bishops' Conference in 2004 and registered in accordance with the laws of Latvia, which took over the projects created and implemented by the organization "Caritas Latvija" - the foundation "Caritas Latvija".

Work
promotion, popularization and revival of Christian love between individuals and groups of people; charitable work (or Christian social care) and providing support to disadvantaged groups of society; promotion of voluntary work; promotion of regional development and development of rural regions; promoting a healthy, ecological lifestyle; developing a civil and sustainable society based on Christian values; full-fledged and useful, creative organization of free time for disadvantaged groups; improvement of the system of social services, improvement of operation.

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1995 Apostolic Administrator for Moldova Anton Coșa

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https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/otlas-partner-finding/organisation/charity-foundation-caritas-moldova.14173/ 11 divisions: e Sphere standards: https://spherestandards.org/focal-points/caritas-moldova/

Although our engagement in the Republic of Moldova started as early as 2004, by carrying out various initiatives with the help of local partners, the Caritas Czech Republic country office in Moldova was inaugurated in November 2017.

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Caritas Malta was founded in 1968 and developed into a Church Secretariat for Social and Charitable Action in 1977 to co-ordinate and develop socio-pastoral work within the Diocese. In 1989, Caritas Malta pioneered the first ever drug rehabilitation services in Malta, opening residential rehabilitation centres to meet the needs of the population. Nowadays, Caritas Malta employs 80 staff members and has more than 120 volunteers that operate the following services that address various social needs:

drug rehabilitation residential programs and outpatients services; counselling and social work to individuals with social, psychological, and emotional problems; support to victims of usury; support to volunteers in local parishes addressing poverty and loneliness; outreach to elderly persons at risk of poverty and loneliness; prevention classes provided to school children attending church schools; provision of various support groups to targeted at vulnerable groups; Young Separated Support Group Widowed and Separated persons Support Group; Alcohol anonymous; Gambling Anonymous; Emotions Anonymous; Epilepsy Association Support Group;

The drug rehabilitation services offered by Caritas Malta are the organisations major operations. In fact, out of a workforce of 80 employees, 57 work within the rehabilitation units. Out of these 57 staff members, 24 are ex-drug users who did the drug rehab program themselves, and are now employed with the organisation after satisfying a number of criteria.

https://www.help-ex.eu/index.php/2020/07/08/fondazzjoni-caritas-malta/

https://timesofmalta.com/article/covid-forces-drop-in-number-of-people-sleeping-at-emergency-shelters.898564 Fondazzjoni Dar il-Hena is a collaboration between Caritas Malta, the Family Ministry and the Alfred Mizzi Foundation.

https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2021-10-07/local-news/Cannabis-Bill-will-normalise-drug-use-and-society-will-suffer-Caritas-OASI-warn-6736237354

http://34.90.53.250/agreement-providing-central-bank-employees-with-wide-ranging-wellbeing-services-extended/ The CBM and Caritas extended its Employees Assistance Programme for a period of three years

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