Caritas Lebanon ends its congress

            Caritas Lebanon concluded in its Sin el Fil head office the two days congress (4 &5 July 2010) entitled “All together for a vision of the future” to which it has invited its partners in the Caritas network, in presence of Caritas Internationalis Secretary General, Mrs. Lesley Anne Knight and CI Vice president, MENA President Attorney Joseph Farah.

            Rev. Simon Faddoul, President of Caritas Lebanon, Bureau and Council members as well as heads of various departments actively participated to these meetings.

            The first day, the different programs and projects of Caritas Lebanon were exposed, namely the humanitarian, social, medical and development ones, as well as all services provided by the Migrants Center.

            An assessment session was carried out the next day stressing on the strong and weak points of the various programs and projects, then recommending some proposals to be taken into consideration in order to improve the impact of all activities in favor of needy citizens.

            Rev. Faddoul exposed to the participants Caritas Lebanon’s new vision of the future regarding internal reorganization, relations with the government and local NGO’s, with partners and foreign governments and with the Lebanese Diaspora. He also mentioned the introduction or adjustment of some programs and projects with the purpose of reaching a larger number of needy people in the Lebanese regions.