Caritas of the Diocese of Feldkirch

Caritas Vorarlberg
Seat	Feldkirch , Austria
main emphasis	Social work , humanitarian aid
people	Walter Schmolly (director)
sales	54,874,000 euros (2017)
Website	www.caritas-vorarlberg.at

The Caritas of the Diocese of Feldkirch , also Caritas Vorarlberg , is a social aid organization of the Roman Catholic Church in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . It is part of Caritas Austria , but an independent institution and reports to the Bishop of the Diocese of Feldkirch .

history

The actual development of Caritas began with the priest Josef Gorbach (1889–1977), who was the first director.

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With the Maria Ebene Foundation, Caritas Vorarlberg played a key role in establishing the Maria Ebene Hospital in Frastanz.

organization

Walter Schmolly (2018)

Walter Schmolly is the director of Caritas in the Feldkirch diocese. The organization is divided into 8 departments:

• Parish charity and socio-spatial action
• People with disabilities
• Social counseling / support
• Refugee aid
• Work & qualification
• Addiction work
• Foreign aid
• Hospice Vorarlberg

tasks

Feldkirch Bludenz Bregenz Dornbirn Egg Rankweil Riezlern Schruns Frastanz

Addiction center Contact point for eating disorders Consultation hours

The core mission of Caritas in Vorarlberg is to help people in emergency situations and to empower people to help others. It offers support in the form of advice, emergency aid and services for / at

• Families in acute emergency situations: Caritas offers help with childcare, housekeeping, supervision and care of sick or elderly family members, offers educational and nursing support for people with physical, mental and / or multiple disabilities.
• Homelessness : Advice and support in the event of impending or acute loss of accommodation, emergency sleeping places .
• Refugees : Asylum seekers receive not only accommodation in a refugee home from Caritas Refugee Aid in the Feldkirch diocese, but also social advice and support.
• Addiction problems or eating disorders : Advice and support are offered in the addiction centers Feldkirch , Bludenz , Bregenz , Bregenzerwald , Dornbirn and Kleinwalsertal ; the contact points for eating disorders provides information and help for those affected.
• Serious illnesses and grief: The Vorarlberg Hospice advises, accompanies and looks after those affected and their relatives in the event of serious illness and grief. People with serious, incurable illnesses are cared for in the “Hospiz am See” or by a mobile palliative team .
• Qualification for long-term unemployed people and integration in the labor market: “carla Soziale Unternehmen” offers people looking for a job a temporary job and support for reintegration in the labor market, “Startbahn” is aimed at unemployed young people and “start2work” is aimed at refugees who are entitled to stay.
• People with disabilities on their way to inclusion : Caritas of the Diocese of Feldkirch supports people with disabilities on their way to take their lives into their own hands - in living, working and in their free time.
• Support for fellow human beings abroad in the creation of important livelihoods (hunger, education, health): Providing help for self-help in the priority countries of Caritas Vorarlberg Armenia , Ethiopia , Ecuador and Mozambique .
• In disaster situations (floods, refugee drama, hunger, etc.), Caritas of the Feldkirch diocese works together with Caritas Austria and the international Caritas network of Caritas Internationalis .

Finances

The income of EUR 54,874,082 mainly consists of fees for services (72.2%), donations amount to 10.5%. 3.5% of the expenses are for administration and less than 1% for fundraising (as of 2017).

According to the information from the Federal Ministry of Finance, donations to Caritas in the Diocese of Feldkirch are tax-deductible as special expenses.

literature

• Johannes Lampert: Caritas in Vorarlberg. Origins - history - outlook. Rheticus issue 1/2005, ISBN 3-900866-85-6 .

Web links

• Caritas Vorarlberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Caritas Vorarlberg organization chart. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Help in crises. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Caritas housing assistance. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Caritas refugee aid. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Caritas Addiction Aid. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
6. ^ Opening of the Hospiz am See Kloster Mehrerau. In: www.mehrerau.at. January 17, 2018, accessed February 25, 2019 . 
7. ^ Caritas Hospice. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Caritas job assistance. In: www.carla-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
9. ↑ start2work integration in Vorarlberg. In: www.okay-line.at. okay.ziegen together - Project Office for Immigration and Integration, Vorarlberg, accessed on March 26, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Caritas people with disabilities. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
11. ^ Caritas in the Ludesch community. In: www.ludesch.at. Ludesch community, accessed on March 26, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Caritas foreign aid. In: www.caritas-vorarlberg.at. Retrieved February 23, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Caritas Vorarlberg Impact Report 2017 (PDF) Caritas Vorarlberg, accessed on February 16, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Federal Ministry of Finance, list of beneficiary institutions. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .