Caritas Europa is a European confederation of Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in Europe. Caritas Europa is one of the seven regions of Caritas Internationalis. The secretariat of the organization is located in Brussels (Belgium). Caritas Europa consists of 48 national member organisations that are working in 44 European countries. The member organizations are active in combating poverty and social exclusion, providing social and welfare services, dealing with migration and asylum issues, combating human trafficking, providing Humanitarian aid in Europe and across the world, and Development and peace programs and projects around the world. Caritas Europa fosters cooperation and mutual learning among its member organisations and facilitates capacity building, joint advocacy and joint projects and programs.
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“I care not what the sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
All that storm that blots the day
Can but show that Heaven yawns;
Great Europa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)