Caritas Parroquial del Calvario is the Church itself in its social work

Caritas is open to public on Tuesdays afternoon and serves all most impoverished people of our surroundings (parishioners, passers by, immigrants. This is our mission, as of the entire Church, to evangelize and it does it as the Pope says in the encyclical “Deus Caritas est”: Any Christian person knows when it is opportune to speak about God and when it is opportune to keep silence about God and let Love speak out.That is the way Caritas evangelizes without doing any proselytism.

In Caritas we always speak of promotion or integration, analyzing why is poverty produced and offer alternatives betting for the dignity and justice of people.

Caritas is resolved to speak about the new poverties, like solitude of old people, sick people known as excluded poor ones, although they are rather unattended persons.

Caritas has served in this parish 259 persons during year 2007, in their multiple problems and needs, such as work, food, medicines, transportation, housing, showers and clothes to those without shelter.Also visits to their homes as a follow up and to discover other possible problems.

To carry out this social work of our parish, we need the collaboration of the community parishioners’ help (volunteers, association members, opportune donations, etc)

SERVICES OF CARITAS

Tuesday: visitors and passers-by: 17:30 - 19:30 .

Thursdays: Clothes delivery and receiving passers-by: 11:00 - 13:00.

Caritasmarbella@telefonica.net

caritasmarbella@hotmail.com

Telephone:952 77 44 44