social work, social policy, humanitarian aid, development aid
President
Monika Maire-Hefti
Affiliations
Caritas Europa, Caritas Internationalis
Revenue (2023)
CHF 149,499,500[1]
Expenses (2023)
CHF 157,066,195[1]
Staff (2023)
615 (full-time equivalent of 488)[1]
Website
www.caritas.ch
Caritas Switzerland (German: Caritas Schweiz, French: Caritas Suisse, Italian: Caritas Svizzra, Romansh: Caritas Svizra) is a Swiss Catholic not-for-profit organisation. Its mission is to prevent, combat and alleviate poverty.[2]
It is a member of both Caritas Europa and Caritas Internationalis.
countries and territories worldwide. The name Caritas Internationalis refers to both the global network of Caritas organizations and to its general secretariat...
organisations operating in Europe. It is one of the seven regions of Caritas Internationalis. Caritas Europa refers to both the European network with its 49 member...
Caritas Ukraine (Ukrainian: Карітас України) is a Ukrainian Catholic not-for-profit and humanitarian relief organisation. Caritas Ukraine is a member...
organization of six aid organizations active in Switzerland in the field of asylum, namely CaritasSwitzerland, Entraide protestante suisse (EPER), l'Œuvre...
Caritas Luxembourg (informally in Luxembourgish: Caritas Lëtzebuerg) is the name of a range of nonprofit organisation operating in Luxembourg. They are...
the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, in 1942 the Bishop Angelo Giuseppe Jelmini created a diocesan Caritas, Caritas Ticino, to address the social...
by a consortium of the Swiss Red Cross, Winterhilfe Schweiz, Solidar Suisse, CaritasSwitzerland, Kolping Schweiz and the Swiss Protestant Church Aid Organisation...
operating across Africa. It is one of the seven regions of Caritas Internationalis. Caritas Africa refers to both the African network with its 46 member...
Caritas Latin America and Caribbean (Spanish: Cáritas América Latina y el Caribe; Portuguese: Cáritas América Latina e Caribe) is a network of Catholic...
Award from the City of Weimar in 2000 and received the Prix Caritas from CaritasSwitzerland in 2003. PREDA cooperates closely with international legal...
2022-04-25. "Caritas Genève". Caritas DE (in Swiss French). Retrieved 2023-06-09. "Organisation suisse d'aide aux réfugiés". www.osar.ch (in Swiss French)...
Caritas Madagascar is a Catholic development and relief agency in Madagascar, established 1959. It is a member of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation...
struggle against precariousness. She is a member of the Presidium of CaritasSwitzerland in connection with the Roman Catholic Church and President of the...
November 2023, at the age of 87. Taban was awarded the Prix Caritas from CaritasSwitzerland in 2004. In September 2017, Taban received the peace award...
in England and Wales. CAFOD is part of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation and of Caritas Europa, as well as a member of the Disasters Emergency...
and Disaster Aid (ADRA), Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland (MSF), Brücke/Le Pont, CaritasSwitzerland, CBM Christoffel Blindenmission, Christian Peace...
about 16 years old, she joined the order, taking the name of Caritas (or Charitas). Caritas was in active correspondence with various figures involved in...
Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003, Fr. Shay was awarded the first Prix Caritas by CaritasSwitzerland. Awarded to Preda in honour of its initiatives and extraordinary...
cooperative organizations, and echoed the Christian duty of assistance (Caritas). Swiss Enlightenment pioneers (e.g. Béat Louis de Muralt, Isaac Iselin) established...
Santa Marinella, 2007 Pro-Asyl-Menschenrechtspreis, 2010 Prix Caritas, 2015 (CaritasSwitzerland) Mediterranean Sea#21st century and migrations Jakob, Christian...
candidate for the Swiss Federal Council in Ticino, but he was not elected. He then served as president of the non-profit CaritasSwitzerland and vice-president...
Million Masken an die Caritas im Erzbistum Berlin" [Deichmann donates one million masks to Caritas in the Archdiocese of Berlin]. Caritas Deutschland (in German)...
Sisters of Mary Immaculate were founded by Blessed Mother Caritas Brader (1860, Switzerland - 1943, Colombia), in Tuquerres, Colombia in 1893. The Congregation...
also known by her religious name Maria Caridad of the Holy Spirit, was a Swiss religious sister who founded the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate....
International de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played...
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