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Title: Working Groups on Work and Values: overview


1
Working Groups on Work and Values overview
  • Caritas Europa
  • Social Policy Forum
  • Sarajevo, October 13-16, 2004

2
What do we do ? - Aid
  • Distribution of clothes
  • Charity soup kitchens
  • meal delivery
  • Medical aid

3
What do we do ? - programs and activities
  • Legal counseling, social counseling,  long
    distance adoption ,
  • Family mediation support,
  • employment programs
  • social enterprise programs
  • sports programs

4
What do we do ? - Categories
  • Drug users
  • single mothers
  • homeless, street children
  • victims of human trafficking
  • migrants, refugees, ethnic minorities
  • prisoners and ex-prisoners
  • victims of war and violence (women and children)

5
What do we do ? - institutions
  • home care
  • social stations day care centers
  • shelters hostels
  • kindergarten
  • Services for the disabled
  • Services for people with mental illness

6
What do we do ? - policies
  • Advocacy, awareness raising
  • co-ordination
  • administration
  • training of workers and volunteers
  • theological reflection
  • prevention strategies
  • fundraising

7
What do we do ? - Summary
  • Broad range of ways
  • - social action - grass roots - institutional
    care - policiesto look at the theme of our
    conference
  • ? broad attendance

8
What do we do ? - Summary
  • ? Important building the network
  • - caritas as a movement / family
  • - sense of ownership

9
Values, beliefs, motivations
  • Personal level
  • happiness, feeling well, satisfaction that I can
    help, I like it
  • share (myself) with other people
  • feel useful
  • self-realisation

10
Values, beliefs, motivations
  • Respond to need
  • Help elderly people, people in need, children
  • Help people so they can look after themselves
    (empowerment)

11
Values, beliefs, motivations
  • More theoretical concepts
  • human dignity
  • solidarity
  • love to the people
  • social justice, fight injustice
  • option for the poor

12
Values, beliefs, motivations
  • Faith
  • Suffering person is sacred / image of God
  • Christian charity
  • specific spirituality (founder/ rel. order)
  • see Christ in every human being
  • own spiritual development
  • being a sinner
  • link with parishes

13
Values, beliefs, motivations
  • Relation to others
  • Link with other world views / religions
  • link with larger community
  • no criterion for selection of clients
  • all clients treated with respect

14
Values, beliefs, motivations
  • Other elements
  • professionalism
  • institutional values
  • individual values (social workers)
  • legal frame

15
Values beliefs - Summary
  • ? Shared and converging elements
  • (Cf. Goal 2 of implementation plan)
  • SWOT strengths, opportunities
  • client as a person (sacred as image of
    God) empowerment
  • common language
  • taking clinical input to grass root level

16
Link work/ beliefs challenges
  • Clear from face value  (double meaning)
  • time is given for reflection and meditation
  • focus in action rather than words
  • developing team spirituality as a source to
    live from
  • (e.g. base community)
  • ? keeping values beliefs in the picture

17
Link work/ beliefs challenges
  • Impossible to help everyone (one has to choose
    sometimes)
  • Difficult to choose right method or behaviour
    (difficult clients)
  • human weakness (lack of patience)
  • Routine of everyday life need to remind oneself
    of values

18
Link work/ beliefs challenges
  • institutional rationale takes lead
  • government demands
  • enough attention for the most excluded ?
  • Church documents not reflected or implemented
  • Role as church agency / ngo ?

19
Faith inspires work
  • Just one  God lives in every man 
  • Should inspire us to continue to work with
    excluded people
  • ? in our daily care
  • ? in our advocacy work
  • ? ? ? From empowerment to advocacy
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