Cáritas Portuguesa
Caritas Portuguesa has as its fundamental guidelines the social doctrine of the Church, the imperatives of solidarity and the applicable civil and canonical legislation, giving priority to the most serious situations of poverty or social exclusion. The guidelines are pursued through the following objectives: assistance, in situations of dependency or emergency; social promotion, aiming at overcoming and preventing dependency or emergency and strengthening personal autonomy; development, in solidarity, integral and personalized; social transformation in depth, especially in the fields of social relations, values and environment.
