Caritas India shall adopt the volunteering approach as a practical way to reach out to the most marginalized sections by enabling people and the communities to play a more active role in development to leverage ownership, participation, empowerment and inclusion. Through this approach, the people, the organization and the community shall benefit. Caritas India intends to bring a fresh perspective, expand diversity, provide leadership, advocate for

Media is considered the fourth Pillar of Indian Democracy and it acts as a watchdog to raise public issues, mould opinions and make people responsible for their actions and thereby work towards the social change in the society. Swaraksha Anti-Human Trafficking (AHT) program has been working with different stakeholders including media for the last four years at the Indo-Nepal border. The need for multi-stakeholder helped the partners for a better

An amazing level of expertise emerged within the group on knowledge and skills of food and nutrition security. The Sabal programme has groomed several thematic leaders who can enable sustainable impact at the grassroots. The programme is in the final stages of its completion and the program participants including coordinators, field supervisors and nutrition health workers gathered together for an annual staff refresher at Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh.

“On seeing my backyard garden growing bigger, it gave me a feeling of happiness and satisfaction”, says Ranjit Swargiary, a resident of Jesusalem village in Biswanath District of Assam. Everything started on 20th March 2020 when the countrywide lockdown was implemented due to the spread of Covid-19 because of which Ranjit Swargiary had to come back home leaving his job in Arunachal Pradesh. Ranjit Swargiary by profession was a small-time contractor

Caritas India handed over medical ventilators to the Kerala Chief Minister, Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan for the treatment of  COVID-19 patients. These lifesaving ventilators will be given to the Government Medical Colleges at Trivandrum, Kollam, Alleppey, Kottayam, Calicut and Ernakulam Government General Hospital through the support of Siemens Caring Hands. These Government medical colleges and hospitals are majorly catering services for the poor and

Hundreds of Caritas Samaritans have stepped up to volunteer at various places across Chhattisgarh to be part of the Information Sharing Centre (ISC). Whether its awareness on covid appropriate behaviour, demystifying false news regarding covid, vaccination registration or providing the right information about vaccines, the Caritas Samaritans have not hesitated to step forward and help the needy. Maheshwar is one such Caritas Samaritan in Mahasamund

Traditionally people are using multiple cropping to grow more food from the same piece of land. Though this practice seems logical, but the experience of the Chhingchhip 5 village farmers suggest otherwise. The farmers initially started getting increased production and income but in the long run, they could hardly meet the needs of their families. The practise of crop rotation in the Sloping Agriculture Land Technology (SALT) booklet provided by

Samvaad is a cluster program that amalgamated after a series of dialogue and interaction with Missio, our donor based in Germany. Peacebuilding has been one of the thrust areas of Caritas India as part of our development agenda. The Covid situation had also posed in front of us different challenges and opportunities that had prompted us to explore various avenues of development. The Samvaad program comes at an appropriate time to create a culture