“Armenian Caritas” benevolent NGO

“Armenian Caritas” was founded in 1995 by the Armenian Catholic Church with the extensive support from the Catholic Relief Services. “Armenian Caritas,” which has ‘Benevolent NGO status’, focuses its efforts on social protection and health care of disadvantaged children, elderly people and people with disabilities; community-based development programs with the focus on social economy, environmental protection and resilience building; migration and integration activities aim at promoting sustainable integration measures for returnees, refugees and displaced population with the focus on socio-economic integration of the target groups. Since the beginning of its activities,

Local

.local tr td{padding:12px}   Local Partners Many local enterprises have chosen Armenian Caritas as a partner for realization of their Social Corporative Responsibility. Due to that productive cooperation Armenian Caritas is enabled to provide wider range of complex and more targeted services to our population.               Birthright Armenia   tender.am Armenian Volunteer Corps Karo Hovagimian Charity Foundation         “National Association of School Parent Council Members”

Our Executive Board

His Excellency Raphael archbishop Minassian – the Archbishop of Armenian Catholics of Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Eastern Europe and the President of “Armenian Caritas” since 2011. Raphael archbishop Minassian received the high school education in the seminary of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar. In 1966, he continued his studies first at the Pontifical Levonian Armenian College and then at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he got the diploma of philosophy and theology and continued his studies at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome specializing in practical psychology.