Caritas Diocesana in Tortosa

Caritas Diocesana in Tortosa is an official organization of caritative action and social promotion from the church and the bishop of Tortosa. Caritas Diocesana is formed by 32 teams and Cáritas Interparroquial of Tortosa is one of them. The objectives of Caritas are: -To promote and coordinate social action of the church in the area of Tortosa Diocesis and also in the poorest villages around the world through development and international cooperation... -To help human promotion and integral development of people, especially the ones with fewer resources. The organization works with these programs: -Hosting service: a team of professionals helps families with the risk of social exclusion and gives help to them. They do the follow-up, they are given help of first need. The service is complemented with food, help for pharmacy, school supplies and books, household supplies, emergency aid, and cloth service. -Social dining room: offering a daily menu for people in a vulnerable position. -"CLARA" project: Psychosocial support to women with a social risk or psychic problems with stress, anxiety. Especially young women with dependents. -"We learn together" project: this project consists of helping children between 6 and 11 years old with their homework, as they have a lack of help from their families. - Emotional support for young people who are in a process of emancipation, carrying out activities such as talks, art workshops, etc. -Store for clothes and shop for second-hand furniture. -Awareness: dissemination of institutional campaigns twice a year. -International cooperation: sensitizes and fundraising for international emergencies. The profile of people that the volunteer will work with: people who assist to care service are people with different problems (drug addiction, abuse, spouses in prison, etc). On the other hand, there is a significant percentage of people who can not afford to arrive at the end of the month (widows, older women). New families who had worked all his life and now with the problems of the crisis, they can not afford the costs lodgement and feeding that up to this day they had never been assisting to social services. These people experience mental health cases. In the Social dining room there are elderly people with fewer resources; in some cases, young people and couples are going through a critical moment.