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We celebrated the residents of St. Martin's Home with a festive Holy Mass and a pancake party on Wednesday, October 5, in connection with World Seniors Day.

We have celebrated International Day of Older Persons at St. Elizabeth's Elderly Home run by Caritas Catolica on Saturday, October 1.

We would like to thank the members of the Oradea Dance Ensemble for visiting us with their traditional itinerary show and delighting the residents of the St. Elisabeth Elderly Home

Three golden years ended in the life of the elderly in Salonta city. On Tuesday, 13 September, we held the final event of the EU project entitled Grandparents of Salonta Community (Bunicii Comunității Salonta), within which free day-care sessions and free home care services were provided for members of the community over the age of 65. In the three-year project, the main applicant, the Salonta City Hall provided the activities of the day care center, while as a project partner, Caritas Catolica provided homecare at the Salonta work point.

An extraordinary event took place on Tuesday, the 30th of August 2022, at St. Elizabeth's Elderly Home in Oradea, administered by Caritas Catolica, where Mrs. Dani Elena (Mrs. Ica) was greeted with the occasion of her 100th birthday. The extraordinary ceremony was attended by illustrious guests such as his excellence, Mr. László Böcskei, the Roman Catholic diocesan bishop, the representative of the Prefect's Chancellery, Mr. Cristian Stef, the Reformed pastor Melinda Nacsádiné Csuka, the director of Caritas pastor József Rajna, as well as artists, musicians and guests from abroad.

Today, several of the Caritas employees, believers and beneficiaries even from Sălacea and Salonta came to the small chapel of the St. Joseph Center to pay homage to the memory of pastor Demeter Curaliuc, who was accompanied yesterday in his last trip to the cemetery Rulikowski from Oradea.

The team of Caritas Catolica Oradea has received an unexpected reinforcement for the summer period in the person of Mr. Rainer Pag, a guest volunteer from Germany, who has dedicated his hard-earned days off to volunteer for several months in Oradea, helping both local communities and Ukrainian refugees. He has been involved not only in charity actions, but also in the background work invisible to the public, from unloading goods and sorting donations, to delivering hot meals and supplying charity shops with merchandise. As he emphasized, whichever department of Caritas he was in, he had no problem making himself understood by the staff and the beneficiaries, because even though they did not speak each other's native language, they still had a common language: love, which made all work easier. We talked to the German guest volunteer about his motivation, experiences and plans.

After a two-year pause caused by the coronavirus pandemic, on Thursday, July 14, 2022, the staff of Caritas' head offices were able to practice fire protection procedures again.

After a two-year break caused by the pandemic, this week, between 26 and 30 June, the volunteer program continued, within which the students of the HTL Mödling professional school in Lower Austria voluntarily renovate the first floor rooms of the St. Joseph Social Center, the headquarters of Caritas Catolica in Oradea.

Already in the early stages of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, we learned from field-reports that in Transcarpathia and other regions of Ukraine where there were many refugees, there was a severe shortage of bread. Mills had nothing to grind, and the bakeries which were still functioning had to work with very little flour. Therefore, in the months since February, we have tried to transfer a large part of our existing flour reserves to crisis-stricken regions via several routes – including towards aid organizations in Nevetlenfalu, Munkachevo and Vynohradiv, from where donations have been re-distributed to many other areas of Ukraine.