Caritas australia biography sample

Australian Catholic humanitarian relief agency.

Caritas Australia is an Australian Catholic agency for development cooperation and humanitarian aid.

Caritas is a member of Caritas Internationalis and its region Caritas Oceania, as well as of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID).

Caritas australia biography sample

History

Caritas Australia's predecessor was the Catholic Church Relief Fund (CCRF), established in 1962 and whose name was changed two years to Episcopal Committee for Catholic Overseas Relief (COR). Later that same year, in 1964, the Catholic Bishops started the Catholic Overseas Relief Executive Committee, whose members were lay people.

It became the Australian Catholic Relief in 1966 and Caritas Australia in 1996.^[3]

In the 1960s, parish communities in Adelaide, Sydney and Wagga Wagga were collecting funds during Lent for missionary projects and activities to reduce poverty abroad.

This practice, named "Project Compassion", developed over t