A note to teachers:

We hope this PowerPoint is a useful resource for you to introduce or explore the work of Caritas Australia , as the Catholic Church’s international aid and development agency, with your secondary students and colleagues.

The presentation generally takes around 30 minutes. You may choose to use only some slides to suit the length you need.

Please note we have included many teaching notes and ideas for how to present this to a secondary audience in the slide notes sections. Slides 12-13 are more appropriate for a teacher audience.

Introduction to Caritas Australia

Who we areA snapshot

Caritas Australia is the Catholic agency for international aid and development.

Caritas Australia helps people to help themselves, regardless of race, political beliefs, gender or religion.

Who we areA snapshot

Our work is guided by the Catholic Social Teaching moral framework, with an emphasis on upholding the Dignity of the human person.

Our core focus is the poorest of the poor - the most vulnerable and marginalised.

Five Fast Facts: LORENZ WORTHMANN BEGAN CARITAS IN 1897, GERMANY.

FOUNDED IN AUSTRALIA IN 1964 AS THE CATHOLIC OVERSEAS RELIEF COMMITTEE.

IN 1996, THE NAME CHANGED TO CARITAS, WHICH MEANS LOVE AND COMPASSION IN LATIN.

THE INITIAL FOCUS WAS TO RESPOND TO DISASTERS WITH FUNDING. THE EMPHASIS IS NOW ON LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-SUSTAINABILITY IN VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES.

CARITAS AUSTRALIA HELPS THE POOREST OF THE POOR IN OVER 30 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD AND IS PART OF AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK COMPRISING OVER 200 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES.

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Our global networkCaritas Australia is the Catholic Agency for

International Aid and Development in Australia. The organisation is part of Caritas Internationalis,

an international confederation of 165 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world for the

poorest of the poor in over 200 countries and territories.

One Human Family, Zero Poverty Film- Caritas Internationalis

What we doOur work can be summarised as:

Humanitarian aid Long term developmentAdvocacy and education

within Australia and with our International Partners.

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Humanitarian Aid

Responding to Disaster

Caritas works through local partners to provide emergency food supplies, clothing, housing and medical attention.

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Caritas supports communities through development programs focusing on various global issues, such as:• health and hygiene• education• food security and

agriculture• water and sanitation

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Long Term DevelopmentHelping people help themselves

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Education and Advocacy

Caritas supports people to challenge the structures that keep them poor.

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Encouraging Social Change

Fernandez Peira de Silva, lives in a favela in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He works with Movimiento de Defensa do favelados , which works with participants in

advocacy, and working to develop individual gifts for the community.

Caritas Australia educates Australians by promoting a just and compassionate society and encouraging everyone to become a ‘leader for justice’.

Our advocacy program provides ways for Australians to stand up against injustice.

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Education and Advocacy Changing Attitudes in Australia

We provide extensive education resources for adults and the school audience on global issues, linked to the Australian Curriculum.

Education and Advocacy Changing Attitudes in Australia

Primary and Secondary resource brochures

Where we work

• Through local partners

• Integrated Human Development

• Increasing capacity for self-help

How we work

Why we do it

"Jesus stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given

to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:

‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent

me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to

proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’

Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in

your hearing.’“ (Luke 4: 16-19, 21)

Catholic Identity

Catholic Social Teaching Principles

• Human Dignity• The Common Good• Solidarity• Subsidiarity• Participation• Preferential Option for the Poor• Stewardship of Creation

CST principles unpacked

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Why we do it

Human Dignity

All people are created in the image of God. People do not lose dignity because of disability, poverty, age, lack of success, or race.

This emphasises people over things, being over having.

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Common Good

The rights of individuals must be balanced with the wider common good of all.

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Solidarity

• We are one ‘body’. When one suffers, we all suffer.

• We are called to stand with those who struggle. • We are called to stand with those who work for

justice.

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Over 560 Students from Mt Carmel School, Queensland, undertook to Walk for Water.

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Caritas Australia helped people displaced by war in Sudan by working in camps to

provide clean water and sanitation, health and nutrition, counselling, education, and

getting agriculture going again. 2007.

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Subsidiarity

• People have the right to make their own decisions about what affects them.

• A higher level community should not interfere in the life of a community – it should support and enable.

CST principles unpacked

Village women meet for Australia-supported Harith Ashia ('Green Hope') integrated natural resource management program. India

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Participation

• Everyone has a right to participate in society.• Everyone has a right to participate in what is

necessary for human fulfilment. e.g. work, education, political participation.

CST principles unpacked

In Chawir, there are two large communal gardens. Around 200 women work here everyday. Chad.

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Stewardshipof Creation

• The goods of the earth are gifts. • We hold them in trust and must look after them.

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Preferential Option for the

Poor

• Seeing the world through the eyes of the poor. • Looking at public policy decisions in terms of

how they affect the poor.

CST principles unpacked

Makeshift shelters made with sticks, blankets and plastic sheeting are the only means of shade or warmth for many of the Malian refugees who have fled the West African food crisis situation in

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Community

• We support communities

rather than individuals

• Needs are identified by locals

o Cooperative effort

o Helping people help

themselvesThis leader is in Nkhungulu village, Malawi, he is role-playing for the community how

to learn development techniques from neighbours, and how they can continue to support and learn from each other.

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Partnership• Partner and fund local NGOs (e.g.

Caritas Chokwe, Mozambique)

• Through the whole development

process:- Technical support

- Management and planning advice

- Mentoring

- Guidance This community outside of Lilongwe city, Malawi had relied on a dirty nearby water spring for water. Through this program the community have now built a borewater

source close to their village.

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Participation

• Capacity building by involving

stakeholders in the local

community:o Consultation;

o Planning;

o Implementation;

o Evaluation of the program.

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The Caritas Australia-supported CONTRASIDA program advocates to the national government on behalf of those affected by HIV/AIDS, promoting fair access to

government health programs, medical services, employment, education, and full civic participation. El Salvador.

Participation

Social change through:

• Capacity building

• Advocacy programs

• Collaboration with other

actors, e.g. government

and social institutionsPeter Maduki of Caritas Tanzania shows Caritas staff the village of Endashang’wet,

Tanzania and their community’s vision for five years’ time.

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Stewardship

• Sustainable development

• Sustainable farming

• Minimising environmental

damage

• Good stewardship of

resourcesA farmer who has received help with sustainable agriculture techniques.

Afghanistan.

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Poorest of the Poor• People are the subject of

their own development

• Programs are tested

• Locating poorest and

most marginalised may

require more time and

resourcesA Malian refugee receiving her hygiene kit in Kizamou, Abala district, Niger. The

Caritas network is distributing hygiene kits to thousands of families affected by the West African 2012 crisis.

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Millennium Development Goals

Caritas Australia and AusAid partnership: working towards the achievement of the MDGs.

http://www.blueprintforabetterworld.org/

Community Engagement Tools and Programs

Walk as one A Just climate Publish what you payAct for justice in the DRC

What can I do - Activity

Charitable Act Donate to Project Compassion

Solidarity Act Caritas K’s

Awareness Raising Act Hold an event/assembly

Action for Change Write to your MP/Sign a petition

Deepening our responsesJustice Perspective

What can I do from Australia?

Stories of transformation as inspiration

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Prayer & Reflection

Amplify the voice of the

poor

Give financially

Learn about the

issues

VolunteerCampaignsA Just ClimateWalk As OneSocial Media

Project CompassionBequestMajor GiftsCaritas KsRegular GivingOnlineAppeals

Resourcescaritas.org.auCaritasNewse-publicationsJust Leadership DaysProfessional Dev.Immersions

In our officePublic speakingFundraisingAt events

Find out morewww.caritas.org.au1800 024 413

Last updated March 2015