Voluntary Service in CARITAS

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STRUCTURECARITAS Voluntary

Service

Groups of volunnteers in PARISHES

Groups of volunteers at

SCHOOLS

EVS (volunteers from other European countries)

Volunteers of CARITAS

Voluntary Center

Individual volunteers at

particular CARITAS CENTERS

NUMBERS

● CARITAS groups in parishes – 96 groups (about 800 volunteers) ● CARITAS groups at schools – about 120 groups (over 3700 volunteers)● Individual volunteers at CARITAS Centres – over 150 people● Volunteers in the CARITAS Voluntary Center – about 130 people● Volunteers from other European countries – 8 people (from Hungary - 2, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Moldova, Latvia, Georgia)

COORDINATION

● CARITAS Volunteer Center ● Coordinators in all Caritas centers (responsible for their individual volunteers)● Coordinators at schools (responisble for their groups of volunteers)● Coordinators in parishes (responisble for their groups of volunteers)● EVS Coordiantor (responsible for foreign volunteers)

ACTION, FORMATION, INTAGRATION…

1.ACTION - all kinds of activities undertaken by volunteers to help people in need

2.FORMATION – trainigs, retreat and praying meetings, exchanges of ideas and experiances etc.

3.INTEGRATION (strongly connected with formation)

VOLUNTEERS IN ACTION

VOLUNTEERS IN ACTION

FORMATION AND INTEGRATION

FORMATION AND INTEGRATION

„Do not wait for some special circumstances to do something good - just use everyday opportunities…”

J.P. Richter

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OUR MOTTO:

Thank you for your attention!

Dziękujemy za uwagę!

CARITAS of Gdansk Archdiocese

Al. Niepodległości 77881-805 Sopot POLAND

tel. +48 58 555 78 78, fax +48 58 551 57 46e-mail: gdansk@caritas.pl

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