Caritas Austria

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Caritas Austria
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founding 1903
Seat Vienna , Austria
main emphasis Services , social work , humanitarian aid , social policy
Action space worldwide
Chair Michael Landau
sales EUR 923.4 million (2017)
Employees 15,648 (2018)
Volunteers about 50,000 (2018)
Website www.caritas.at

Caritas Austria is a social aid and service organization of the Roman Catholic Church and a member of Caritas Internationalis , which was founded in 1903. There are nine dioceses in Austria . Each diocese is subordinate to a Caritas institution that reports to the diocesan bishop and not to Caritas Austria.

Employee

In 2018 there were 15,648 full-time employees, around 50,000 volunteers in parishes and Caritas institutions. Among other things, they work in 36 social counseling centers, 34 homeless institutions, 12 of which are mother and child centers, in refugee homes and counseling centers for migrants. Caritas also operates 48 retirement and nursing homes (for around 4,750 old people). 3,013 employees look after around 6,877 people (in part-time and full-time living also socio-psychiatric, on work projects and the like).

construction

Contributor to the project Le + O - Food and Orientation of Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna

The Austrian Caritas consists of the nine independent organizations with their own financial responsibility in the Austrian dioceses . The central coordination currently includes Michael Landau as President and General Secretary Bernd Wachter and his deputy Andreas Knapp (General Secretary for international programs). Each individual Caritas institution is its own legal body and acts as a supporting organization for social services. Most of them are registered as an association under church law .

Organizations in the dioceses:

Each parish has its own parish charity: A total of 33,000 parish charity employees work for “active charity”. They organize visiting services, senior meetings, benefit events, discussion groups, flea markets, Caritas showcases, holiday programs for children, individual financial aid, refugee aid, house collections and much more.

development

Caritas volunteer helping with food distribution in Graz

The beginnings of the Caritas movement in Austria can be traced back to the first Caritas congresses shortly after the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The organizational structure was based on the German model at that time. Nine regional associations were established shortly after the First World War . The first focus of activity was, in accordance with the emergency, with feedings and children's recreational activities in the country. Caritas pensions organized a Christian funeral for people from poorer strata of the population.

Later - as in the Federal Republic of Germany - fields of activity such as care services , support and family help, aid for the homeless, the disabled and refugees (for example during the Hungarian uprising of 1956 ), social counseling , the Caritas shops, mother-child houses and finally the ( mobile) hospice work and employment projects.

In 2015, the Austrian Caritas supported over 72,000 people in its 36 social counseling centers with advice and also financially and paid out around four million euros in emergency aid. Family helpers take care of the children and the household when the parents can no longer do that.

Abroad, disaster relief and development cooperation dominate .

financing

Appeal for donations from Caritas in Innsbruck

In the last few decades Caritas has changed from a donation-financed organization to a service company in the vicinity of the public sector. In the meantime (2017) only around 8% of the expenditure is covered by donations (including church contributions), in 2015 it was around 10%. The vast majority (62%) is accounted for by fees for services from public funds, the remainder for the most part by private fees and (state) subsidies.

Due to the strong dependency on (state) performance fees, the self-definition as an aid organization is sometimes questioned and Caritas is described as "a company with an annual turnover of over 900 million euros". This criticism was rejected by Caritas President Landau, referring to the general interest in the work of Caritas.

The incoming donations rose to 77.58 million euros in 2017. This makes Caritas the non-profit organization with the highest number of donations in Austria.

Caritas sales are exempt from sales tax.

President

The Caritas presidents after the Second World War:

Web links

Commons : Caritas Austria  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Caritas Report on Impact 2017. (PDF) Caritas Austria, p. 19 , accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  2. a b c Figures and facts about the work of Caritas. Caritas Austria, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  3. Caritas & Du Impact Report 2018 (PDF) Caritas Austria, accessed on October 17, 2019 .
  4. Parish Caritas. Caritas Austria, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  5. 70,000 euros for Mobile Caritas Hospice, which accompanies people with incurable diseases , from July 3, 2018, accessed on May 20, 2019 in Uniqagroup.com.
  6. Caritas & Du Impact Report 2016. (PDF) Caritas Austria, p. 18 , accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  7. Rosemarie Schwaiger: Interview with the Caritas President Michael Landau . In: Profile . No. 14 . Vienna March 30, 2018, p. 26 .
  8. ↑ Donation report 2018. Fundraising Verband Austria, p. 22 , accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  9. according to §6 Abs. 1 Zi 25 UStG
  10. ^ Caritas President. Caritas Austria, archived from the original on July 19, 2014 ; accessed on February 23, 2019 .

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