Our Vision

A conscious community where every human being, especially the poor and the marginalized, enjoys love, dignity, and justice.

Our Mission

We are Caritas Egypt; as the “social arm” of the Catholic church, we seek comprehensive and sustained human development and work through brotherly cooperation and partnership to promote human life and human dignity through building a community with more awareness and resilience, where individuals can achieve actively participate in keeping the sustainability of their communities and can responsibly and respectfully respond to social, economic, and environmental changes and risks.

1. Child Care and Protection

A safe community that can provide high-quality child-raising and development services based on children’s best interests and where adults can protect children against different kinds of child violence, abuse, exclusion, and exploitation.

2. Women and Girls Empowerment

Women and girls become able to face the negative stereotyping they may face because of belittling their valuable position and role in their community and combat the different types of abuse, violence, and harmful practices, they may suffer due to their gender.

3. Youth and Leadership

Conscious young people become able to lead the individual and social initiatives of community development.

4. Handicap, Integration, and Rehabilitation

Handicaps are integrated into the community, enabling them to obtain their educational, economic, sexual, and reproductive rights and participate in all family and social life activities according to their capabilities.

5. Microloan and Economic Empowerment

Low-income families and unemployed persons witnessed improvements in their livelihood and economic conditions and became able to combat poverty, reducing their unemployment level and increasing their capabilities to meet their basic needs and face the various socioeconomic changes.

6. Refuge and Migration

Refugees and migrants integrated into Egyptian society and became able to access education, healthcare, employment, and psychiatric support opportunities.

7. Caring for the Rehabilitation of Vulnerable Groups and Combating Stigma and Discrimination

A conscious community is able to respond to the stereotyping perspectives and different social stigmas and discrimination affecting some vulnerable groups who are suffering due to addiction, HIV, old age, or incarceration of one of their family members, where vulnerable groups who are suffering because social stigmas become able to access healthcare, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services.

Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Egypt is affiliated to the Caritas International Confederation, a network of Catholic charities. “Caritas will work towards putting the human family and human dignity at the heart of development.” Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Caritas President and Archbishop of Manila Caritas Internationalis was founded In December 1951 by thirteen Roman Catholic organizations active in the field of charity, social work, and humanitarian emergencies. Since then Caritas Internationalis has expanded to a worldwide network of 165 organizations, with a permanent presence in most of the world’s countries. Caritas Internationalis comes into action when an emergency occurs. However, it has a wider scope. Acting on its Christian values, the Caritas organizations collaborate all over the world with the poor, the vulnerable and the excluded, regardless of their race or religion.

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Caritas Egypt Transformational Process

Between 2020 and 2023, Caritas Egypt experienced an organizational transformation process that gradually started at the end of 2020 with the appointing new General Director and crowned at the end of 2023 with the developing Caritas Egypt Country Strategic Plan 2023-2027 that cope with the national strategic directions 2030 (Egypt Vision 2030) and matches with the strategic goals of Caritas international confederation for 2027 and the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

Caritas Egypt’s transformational process developed new internal regulations and policies for Caritas Egypt that were approved by Caritas Egypt General Assembly and put into implementation the following new policies:
1. Updated and new financial policies and procedures.
2. Fixed assets & stores policy.
3. Updated HR manual,
4. Anti-corruption & anti-fraud policy.
5. Procurement policy in line with the UNHCR policy.
6. Code of conduct – Gender Equality – Anti Harassment – Safeguarding policies
7. Risk management.
8. Complaints & reporting mechanisms.