Valan Maria

caritas india

Caritas India is among the pioneer humanitarian organizations working primarily in the sectors of Disaster Risk Reduction, Natural Resources Management including that of Farmers' Access to Market, Poverty Alleviation & Livelihood, Community Health, Tribal Development and Gender & Child Rights. In the last one decade, more than 1.5 billion people have been affected by disasters across the globe between 2005 and 2015 according to the UN. Caritas India has reached out to a significant one million people of that mammoth population affected by disasters within this period through its relief and recovery services across 14 major emergencies in India investing 5 billion Indian Rupees. In the last one year, our services across the sectors as cited above have reached close to a million people. Internationally, Caritas is present in 165 countries.