Social Assistance

SOCIAL ASSISTANCE AND CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT

Children’s care, which represents the most vulnerable persons of any society, has always been the core of Caritas Internationalis work. Child Protection Department was created in 2003 to support and promote social initiatives of supporting children and families in the Republic of Moldova. The work in this area is based on moral and ethical principles of Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, as stated in the Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Church, Chapter III “The family as social subject – Dignity and rights of children “, art. 244-245, the situation of many of the world’s children is far from satisfactory, because it lacks the conditions that encourage their integral development despite the existence of an international legal instrument specifically for child protection. Therefore the care for child’s welfare is stipulated by child protection policies of each individual family member of Caritas. Another pillar on which is based the Department’s activities for children is the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which governs the fundamental rights of the child and the requirement of empowered organizations to ensure this right to each child.
The first activities in this area began with educational projects.

 AND CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT

Children’s care, which represents the most vulnerable persons of any society, has always been the core of Caritas Internationalis work. Child Protection Department was created in 2003 to support and promote social initiatives of supporting children and families in the Republic of Moldova. The work in this area is based on moral and ethical principles of Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, as stated in the Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Church, Chapter III “The family as social subject – Dignity and rights of children “, art. 244-245, the situation of many of the world’s children is far from satisfactory, because it lacks the conditions that encourage their integral development despite the existence of an international legal instrument specifically for child protection. Therefore the care for child’s welfare is stipulated by child protection policies of each individual family member of Caritas. Another pillar on which is based the Department’s activities for children is the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which governs the fundamental rights of the child and the requirement of empowered organizations to ensure this right to each child.
The first activities in this area began with educational projects.