Description of organisation

Caritas of the Archdiocese of Gdansk (CAG) is a church charity organization established on 25 April 1990. The organisation brings help to every single person in need regardles worldview, religion, gender, age or health status.
The purpose of the organization's activities: charitable and humanitarian activities in the spiritual and material needs of people.
Main groups of people who are supported by CAG:
- youth and children (from communities at risk of social exclusion),
- elderly people,
- people with disabilities (including mental disabilities),
- poor and homeless people,
- sick people,
- mothers with babies without place to live.
CAG supported by employees, volunteers, church members and school caritas group is providing stable help to many people by it’s various activities. The main ones are following:
- run the canteen and bathhouse for poor and homeless,
- run therapy centers for people with disabilities where they can achieve educational, social and psychological suport,
- run common rooms and centers for children and youth where they can get help with their school homework and spend free time with youth leader organizing different activities such as sport, outdoor, preventive classes in the field of counteracting addictions,
- organizing summer and winter camps for youth and children from disadvantage families,
- run seniors’ clubs,
- run a hospice,
- running a center for people chronically ill people where they receive proffesional medical support and rehabilitation assistance, and daily care,
- running a center for mothers with their babies in hard situations (for exmple without any place to live or without any family support).