How We Help
Within our humanitarian aid and development cooperation department, we focus on a number of fields, including:
- humanitarian aid
- livelihood
- social work
- health care
- capacity building of local partners (i.e. improving skills and knowledge)
- development education (offered in the Czech Republic)
- migration (within the Czech Republic)
Other Czech cartias organizations (Archdiocesan and diocesan caritas) are also involved in different program:
- children sponsorship
- seniors sponsorship
- care for the elderly
- care for the poor
- fight against child labor
Bekaa - one of the target areas of Syrian refugees
Report from Caritas Lebanon: 8.5 thousand Syrians fled to north Lebanon during the first half of April. It is very difficult to get help to the refugees because they are scattered in different towns and villages. Caritas Lebanon field workers in particular have problems with deliveries to more remote areas such as the village of Masharie el Qaa near the border of Syria. This is due to strict security measures and the recent incidents in this village.
Day visit to a pre-school education centre
In March 2012 Tomáš Tetiva, project manager of Caritas CR, went to Chechnya for a monitoring trip. Among other things, he visited the center of pre-school education in Assinovskaja village which was built by Caritas CR, and is operated by a partner organization called Initiative and co-financed by Caritas Switzerland. Tom has shared with us his experiences of the day that he spent among children and their teachers.
With marmalades to reconciliation
An armed conflict in 2008 separated South Ossetia from the rest of Georgia. The conflict also divided the people living on both sides of the border, not just geographically. Caritas Czech Republic and local organization ABCO Georgia help to restore a sense of mutual confidence between the Georgian and Ossetian population in the border region by establishing a joint venture.
Cambodian girl, Channy, could see for the first time a few weeks ago
Neang Channy lives with her grandfather and grows up with help from aunts and uncles in a small village in Takeo province. After the examination, provided by Caritas Czech Republic, doctors have discovered a defect in her eyes that meant she could see only light and darkness or outlines in the fog. Thanks very thick glasses, she can see the details now, including the facial features of her loved ones. Channy can go to school, play with her friends and help her family with domestic activities.
New latrines in Haitian schools
Since the beginning of 2012, Caritas Czech Republic has distributed new latrines, washrooms and water tanks to three schools in the area of Duval in the East Port-au-Prince. Directors of all donated institutions are very grateful, because they believe it will greatly improve the hygienic conditions the schools and the orphanages.
Moldova is my Africa
Transnistria or Moldavian Transnistrian Republic declared independence from Moldova in 1990. However, internationally it is still seen as a part of Moldova. When entering the country from the Moldovan side, visitors go through triple security, which is somewhat easy on the Moldova side. Visitors show their passports to peacekeeping forces, who are Russian troops, and finally they must fill in a form and have their passports re-checked by Transnistria customs officers.
Sports are back again in Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 2 school
In the capital of the western-most Indonesian province of Aceh, Banda Aceh on Sumatra island, it is heavily raining. This does not prevent students of the Islamic secondary school Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 2 to play a friendly volleyball match. Teachers cheer them on from the sidelines. According to the headmaster of the school, sporting events are an important part of school activities because they encourage a positive school spirit.
Mobile emergency/doctor rooms in Mongolian country side take a hit
Caritas Czech Republic has set up mobile emergency rooms in rural areas of the west Mongolian Zavkhan province and provided training for local medical staff. Czech Development Agency co-financed all activities.
