Legal Form:
Specific institution of Church

Address:
Kapitulska 18, 814 15 Bratislava
http://www.charita.sk

Contact Person:
Juraj Barat
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tel: 02/54 43 15 06
fax: 02/54 43 30 97
Year of establishment: 1927

Number of employees/ volunteers: 1383 employees/ 1752 volunteers

Membership in the Platform: full

Description:
Charita Slovakia is non- governmental, non- profit organization that is providing charity, social, health care, educational, and other services to people regardless of their race, nationality, religion and political opinions.

Activities:
• Social prevention and social consulting
• Social services- ambulatory
• Charity services in families- day care
• Houses of Charity
• Charity and social houses
• Other social services- wardrobes, laundries
• Social services- stationary
• Houses of social services for old people and sick people
• Houses of social services for handicapped children and adults
• Accommodation for handicapped people
• Charity foster houses
• Houses for mothers with children
• Re- socializing houses
• Centers for youth and accommodation for youth
• Reception centers for homeless people
• Health Care services
• ADOS- agency of daily nursing services
• Hospices
• Daily children sanatorium
• Pharmacy
• Educational services- specialized primary school for children with combined handicap
• Humanitarian and development help

Development and Humanitarian cooperation:

Foreign development and humanitarian projects:

Year(s):1996
Name of the Project: Visits of children from Chernobyl
Country: Ukraine
Target group: handicapped children

Year(s): 1996-2004
Name of the Project: Distance adoption
Country: India
Target group: children from poor families

Year(s):1997-2002
Name of the Project: Distance adoption
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Target group: children and handicapped after the war

Year(s):1999-2000
Name of the Project: School in Gavicica
Country: Kosovo
Target group: population after the war

Year(s):1999
Name of the Project: Earthquake
Country: Turkey
Target group: help after the earthquake

Year(s):2000
Name of the Project: Food help
Country: Chechnya
Target group: population after the war

Year(s):2000
Name of the Project: Rehabilitation after the war
Country: Yugoslavia
Target group: population effected by war

Year(s):2001
Name of the Project: Construction of family houses and bakery after floods
Country: Ukraine
Target group: families

Year(s):2001
Name of the Project: Earthquake
Country: India
Target group: help after the earthquake

Year(s):2001
Name of the Project: Post- war rehabilitation and refugees
Country: Afghanistan
Target groupa: population and refugees

Year(s):2004
Name of the Project: Food project in area Tonj
Country: Southern Sudan
Target group: population
Projects assigned to increase Slovak public awareness about development cooperation:

Year(s): 1996-2004
Name of the Project: Distance adoption
Target group: Slovak population

Funding:
Project financing - grants, donations, Slovak Aid
Financing of the organization – state budget, sponsors, projects, 2% from income tax

Magazine: 
Slovenská katolícka charita (Charita Slovakia)