Project Name: Providing aid to the poor unemployed women and their children

Amount of Donation: 3496 euros

ENGLISH VERSION
Vilnius Archdiocese Caritas mission – to address charity and social issues in Vilnius Archdiocese. The mission of the child and teenager day centre Angle of Hope, a sub-division of Vilnius Archdiocese Caritas, is to provide social services based on Christian values to children from families at social risk and to their parents.

VERSION FRANÇAISE
La mission de Caritas d’archidiocèse de Vilnius est de résoudre les problèmes sociaux et caritatifs.  Le centre de jour pour les enfants et adolescents « Ange de l’espoir » (unité de Caritas d’archidiocèse de Vilnius) a pour mission d’offrir des services sociaux fondés sur les valeurs chrétiennes pour les enfants des familles à risque social et pour leurs parents.

ENGLISH VERSION
The project aims at providing social and spiritual aid to women in a condition of a crisis (long-term unemployment, lack of permanent housing, extremely poor living conditions, being addicted to alcohol, suffering from mental impairments, low self-esteem, feeling despair and being socially excluded) and supporting them to return back to the labour market and integrate into the society. To this end, individual consultations provided by a social worker (providing information, raising women’s motivation in looking for a job, mediating, representing, etc), workshops fostering women’s work skills such as handmade cards production workshops, cookery workshops, self-help groups and other educational events are planned. The project is based on the theory of “perspective of strengths”, which maintains that every person possesses internal and external resources that are necessary to overcome a crisis. Working with a woman, a children’s mother, who very often is alone in bringing up her children, it is possible to maintain a family which is the main institution for a child’s growth and development.