We understand Africa

Caritas Mariana was founded in 2001 by Father Abdias, an African Priest, with the purpose to help easen poverty in the world.

The extremely slim administrative structure with unpaid volunteers in Austria and an efficient African team in Kenya donations of generous people end up where they are supposed to: At the orphans.

By African art of improvisation, excellent connections with the authorities and well-directed fundraising activies in Kenya a level of cost efficiency is achieved that purely European charities can only dream about.

What is the meaning of "Caritas Mariana"?

The word Caritas means charity. Mariana means Mary, Mother of Christ

“Mary, the Mother of Christ, is the model of perfect Charity. Our charitable engagement is an epitome of Mary´s life of perfect charity. So we are called CARITAS MARIANA”!

Our Mission

• Encourage everyone to engage in activities that promote the eradication of poverty from the lives of the underprivileged.
• Provide slum dwellers with education and healthier alternatives to drug abuse, prostitution, and other self-destructive activities.
• Encourage everyone to develop the spirits of knowing and serving the only true God, our creator.
• Equip the poor in the third world with skills that will help to ensure self-sustenance and self-development.

An old saying states:

"If you give a man a fish, he has food for one day. 

If you teach him how to fish, he has food for his whole life."