Where it all comes together In our work with communities, we empower them to see what they need for development. Then we build the local capacity and support them to become independent and sustain their new capacities. In integrated community development, many of our services come together and mutually enforce development efforts. Literacy becomes social

Skills and micro-credit Through small loans, we stimulate local entrepreneurship for socio-economic development. Since 1970 we support youth, women, and men to realize their dreams, not only by giving them the required loans to get started but also by providing technical advice. We also provide vocational training for youth and adults of 16 to 45

For quality of life The Caritas SETI Center (Support, Education, Training for Inclusion), established in 1986, works on improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities and their families. We use a family and community oriented approach, which considers the immediate environment to be the main factor for the rehabilitation and integration process for

Awareness and access We aim to raise the health awareness of citizens, rural and urban, to enhance responsible behaviour towards their own and their family’s health, mother-child care, and addressing malpractices. We empower professionals such as physicians, nurses, literacy teachers, local leaders and health workers, through training of trainers programs. We work through a successful

Learning for life The Basic Education Program plays a key role in social change, not only for its high number of classes and students – almost half a million in the past decennia – but even more for the impact on the students and the deep changes that happen in their lives and their environment.