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We met our Austrian and German benefactors on a special trip from October 15-21, 2023. We had the occasion to meet again these dedicated people who share the fruits of their charitable work not only with their local communities, but also with those in need in the Diocese of Oradea through Caritas Catolica.

The youth group of Caritas in Vienna collected second-hand clothes for three days as part of the 72 hours without compromise program, with the help of volunteers from around 20 parishes. Of these, 120 boxes with clothes and shoes were donated on Friday to the Caritas Catolica Association from Oradea.

Caritas Catolica organized on Friday, October 13, in Oradea the first "Alzheimer's Walk", joining at the same time the voluntary movement entitled 72 hours without compromises initiated by Pope Francis. The Alzheimer's walk, modeled after Hungarian example, is actually a solidarity march, the purpose of which is on the one hand, to draw public attention to the situation of elderly patients struggling with mental deficiencies and, on the other, to promote community organizing, dialogue and exchange of experience related to the disease, connecting different religious congregations and civil organizations.

Professors of Divine Mercy University from Virginia and their senior year psychology students held a series of professional training sessions for Caritas Catolica staff in recent days.

The pupils of the Tamasi Áron Agricultural and Industrial Vocational School from Bors, led by class teacher Andrea Hofmann, have been volunteering regularly with us for years and beautifying the garden of St. Elizabeth Elderly Home with diligent work. Therefore, we were very pleased to be invited to their graduation, where Andrea Nagy, head of the elderly home, and Enikő Pentek, chief accountant of Caritas Catolica, thanked the students for their work and awarded certificates of appreciation to the two most active volunteer gardeners of the past year: graduate students Ervin Mihály Fűzfa and Szilárd Fazekas.

We celebrated an extraordinary anniversary at Caritas Catolica on Tuesday, June 15, 2023, when our dear old friends and loyal sponsors from the German city of Villingen-Schwenningen visited us. All four foreign guests are active members of the German foundation, which has been supporting the work of Caritas and other charitable organizations in Transylvania and Romania with material goods for decades. Two of the members of the team have been active for an extended period: Mrs. Irmgard Rösch, founder of Freundeskreis Villingen-Schwenningen, has been doing humanitarian service for 32 years, and her colleague Helmut Conz for 30 years, but also the rest of the visiting group, Mrs. Martha Faisst and Mr. Reiner Hogg have also been long-standing pillars of the German foundation.

We have relaunched the Alzheimer Café self-help group in Oradea on May 12, 2023, Jointly organized by the Caritas Catolica Association and the Csillagvaros Foundation with the intention of creating a tradition.

Caritas Catolica from Oradea organized for the ninth time a celebration in honour of nurses, elderly caregivers, spiritual caregivers and support professionals on the occasion of the International Day of Nurses, which was held again this year on the birthday of Florence Nightingale, a British nurse revered as the founder of modern nursing methodology, on 12 May.

Within the international volunteer program of the Caritas Catolica Association, 16 students and 4 teachers of the Melanchthon de Blesewic secondary school from the Netherlands carried out humanitarian activities in Oradea and Bihor County between the 13th-20th of April. The enthusiastic team visited numerous institutions with a social profile within the one-week program and supported their beneficiaries not only through their voluntary work, but also with material donations.

The directors and heads of departments of Caritas Catolica gave an account of the realizations of the past year on Thursday, March 23 at the annual general meeting of the charity organization.