1. Voluntary Service in CARITAS “NO PROFIT EUROPE” GRUNDTVIG PARTNERSHIP 4 th Transnational meeting Lichfield 24-25/11/2011

2. STRUCTURE CARITAS Voluntary Service Groups of volunnteers in PARISHES Groups of volunteers at SCHOOLS EVS (volunteers from other European countries) Volunteers of CARITAS Voluntary Center Individual volunteers at particular CARITAS CENTERS

3. NUMBERS ● CARITAS groups in parishes – 96 groups (about 800 volunteers) ● CARITAS groups at schools – about 120 groups (over 3700 volunteers) ● Individual volunteers at CARITAS Centres – over 150 people ● Volunteers in the CARITAS Voluntary Center – about 130 people ● Volunteers from other European countries – 8 people (from Hungary - 2, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Moldova, Latvia, Georgia)

4. COORDINATION ● CARITAS Volunteer Center ● Coordinators in all Caritas centers (responsible for their individual volunteers) ● Coordinators at schools (responisble for their groups of volunteers) ● Coordinators in parishes (responisble for their groups of volunteers) ● EVS Coordiantor (responsible for foreign volunteers)

5. ACTION, FORMATION, INTAGRATION… 1.ACTION - all kinds of activities undertaken by volunteers to help people in need 2.FORMATION – trainigs, retreat and praying meetings, exchanges of ideas and experiances etc. 3.INTEGRATION (strongly connected with formation)

6. VOLUNTEERS IN ACTION

8. FORMATION AND INTEGRATION

10. „Do not wait for some special circumstances to do something good - just use everyday opportunities…” J.P. Richter NO PROFIT EUROPE” GRUNDTVIG PARTNERSHIP OUR MOTTO:

11. Thank you for your attention! Dziękujemy za uwagę! CARITAS of Gdansk Archdiocese Al. Niepodległości 778 81-805 Sopot POLAND tel. +48 58 555 78 78, fax +48 58 551 57 46 e-mail: gdansk@caritas.plgdansk@caritas.pl www. gdansk.caritas.pl NO PROFIT EUROPE” GRUNDTVIG PARTNERSHIP