Trócaire
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Trócaire (, meaning "compassion") is an International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) which is based in Ireland. It was founded, in 1973, as the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Trócaire is involved in humanitarian and development programs in mostly developing countries. It is a member of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation and its subregion Caritas Europa as well as of the Catholic NGO network CIDSE and the Irish NGO network Dóchas.
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It sits within the topics 1973 establishments in Ireland, Caritas Internationalis and Christian organizations established in 1973.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Headquarters
- St Patrick's College, Maynooth
- Employees
- 118
- Revenue
- 82222000
- Official website
- www.trocaire.org
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- inception
- 1973-00-00
- donations
- 26880000
- native label
- Trócaire
- total assets
- 85658000
- bequest income
- 3700926
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Programmes
- Past activities
- Fundraising
- References
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Trócaire (, meaning "compassion") is an International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) which is based in Ireland. It was founded, in 1973, as the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Trócaire is involved in humanitarian and development programs in mostly developing countries. It is a member of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation and its subregion Caritas Europa as well as of the Catholic NGO network CIDSE and the Irish NGO network Dóchas.
==History== The roots of the charity lie in Pope Paul VI's 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, which called for people to take notice and respond to the injustices that were occurring all round the world. Then, in response to the 1973 floods which ravaged Bangladesh, Cardinal William Conway saw the need for a church agency which would co-ordinate charitable donations originating in Ireland. Trócaire's life began with a pastoral letter written in the same year by the Bishops of Ireland. In it, they set out the aims of Trócaire:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trócaire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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