Caritas Austria (Caritas Österreich) is a social aid organisation of the Roman Catholic Church and a member of Caritas Internationalis, which was founded in 1903. There are nine Dioceses in Austria. Each Diocese reports to a Caritas institution which reports to the Diocesan bishop and not to Caritas Austria. In 2018, there were 15,648 full-time employees, around 50,000 volunteers, in parishes and Caritas facilities, working in 36 social counselling centres, 34 shelters for the homeless, including ten mother-child homes, 247 refugee homes and 36 counselling centres for migrants. Caritas also operates 48 homes for the elderly and nursing homes (for about 4,750 elderly people). 3,013 employees look after about 6,877 persons (in part-time and full-time living also social-psychiatric, in work projects and the like). More information...
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