Catholic Work for Women

 Sr.Kridsada  Sartpan

Manager of Catholic Work for Women Section

Framework

• To promote social, ethical, moral, spiritual values and health for any interested women in or outside the parishes.
• To implement activities for women in target populations. For example women volunteers visit women in prisons.
• To collaborate with other religious, public or private organizations working for the benefits of women.

Mission

1. To support setting up various women groups in the level of parishes.
2. To establish pastoral district committees for women and to promote the collaboration between those committees and laity association.
3. To organize seminars on various topics for women in the diocese two times per year.

Pastoral Care For the Eldery Section

Fr.Thananchai  Kitsamak

Manager

Framework

• To collaborate with senior groups that existing in parishes.
• To provide assistance to the elderly poor.
• To develop human resources leadership for workers at various levels.
• To promote and support activities for the elderly according to respective cultural or traditional occasions.
• To assist other aspects such as income or health care.

Mission

1. To establish committees for the elderly at three levels - diocese, pastoral districts and parishes.
2. To schedule committee meetings every two month at two levels - the diocese and pastoral districts.
3. To encourage various ongoing activities for the elderly.
4. To assemble committees at the diocese level every two years.
5. To provide useful information regarding the elderly to committees at all levels.

Pastoral Care For Tourism and Seafarers

Mr.Manop  PhewKlieng

Acting Manager

Framework

• To visit seafarers of various nationalities, such as Chinese, Vietnamese or Filipino who work in commercial cargo ships coming from various countries to Thailand.
• To offer catholic religious services, such as Sunday mass, etc.
• To advise on spiritual, psychological, or social aspects as well as the culture and traditions of Thailand.
• To assist the crew in communication with home countries. Also to intervene and advocate on behalf of the crew on various legal matters, such as wages in case the ship companies omit to pay wages, or human trafficking, etc.

Mission

1. Seafarers

        - To visit from Monday to Friday crews from commercial cargo ships that dock in Klong Toei port.

        - To offer catholic religious services and/or Gospel sharing once per week or as needed.

        - To build relationship with crews from commercial cargo ships or fishermen from fishing industry.

2. Tourists

        - To provide catholic mass schedules and church locations in the area of Bangkok.

        - To assist with other matters, such as lodging in case of robbery, loss of money, passport, etc.

Health Care Section

Fr.Phornsan  Singchai

Manager

Framework

• To provide information for good quality of life, the prevention and treatment of illnesses, including AIDS and HIV.
• To organize mobile clinics for various needs.
• To collaborate with public and private organizations in fostering good quality of life and health care for the poor.

Mission

• To recruit and organize medical professionals, who live in the Archdiocese of Bangkok for volunteering services.
• To provide free medical services at various parishes.
• To collaborate with medical professional volunteers in other dioceses as needed, such as in various disasters.
• To provide health information to the general public.

Pastoral Care for Emergency Relief and Refugees

Mr.Manop  PhewKlieng

Acting Manager

Framework

• To collaborate with the Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees (COERR).
• To develop personnel at all levels in the church to work in this field.
• To provide information, materials and assistance as needed for victims who live in the Bangkok Archdiocese.

Mission

1. To collaborate with public, private and religious agencies to provide relief to victims.
2. To organize supporters from schools and parishes in the Bangkok Archdiocese in the relief efforts for victims of disasters such as storm, flood and fire.
3. To provide assistance for urban refugees who live in the Bangkok Archdiocese, such as medical care, religious services, food distribution, education and vocational training, etc.

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Fr.Sarawut  Amorndit

Manager

Framework

To work with people in urban and rural areas.

   - To educate the community about social work..

   - To provide training / seminars on social and development issues.

   - To support and enhance the implement of livelihood and quality of life for the community.

   - To enable capacity building of community leaders.

   - Foster collaboration within and between communities and other public and private organizations.

Mission

1. To foster knowledge sharing and provide applicable support to supplement urban and rural family income.

2. To encourage the coming together of people and promote the practices and celebrations of local cultural values.

3. To coordinate with local authorities to develop local communities / villages.

4. To encourages volunteer groups, community / village to help one another.

5. To encourage the exchange of knowledge between the professional communities and the villages to enhance networking of all parties involved.

6. To encourage savings within the community.

Pastoral Care For Prisoners and Migrants

Fr.Anucha  Chaopreaknoi

Manager

Framework

• To visit prisoners in prisons.
• To provide moral or ethical guidance and vocation training.
• To offer catholic religious services
• To assist inmates as necessary and appropriate.
• To organize educational activities for migrant worker adults and their children and to visit their families on a regular basis.

Mission

1. Prisoners

          - To visit prisoners once per month

          - To offer catholic religious services once per month and as needed.

          - To organize special events, such as Songkran, New Year, Christmas celebrations, etc. for prisoners with permission of the prison authority.

      2. Migrants

          - To visit and organize special events for foreign migrant workers, such as various ethnic groups from Burma.

          - To provide education

             + Training in the Thai language and English language and computer skills.

ADMINSTRATION

Fr.Sarawut  Amorndit

Director

Responsibility : Planning policy, budgeting, summary report, financial report, Other services for all section

Framework

1. To place the policy framework and action plan in accordance with the guidelines of the Archdiocese of Bangkok.

2. To allocate budget and to collect information and prepare a summary report on all operation and projects.

3. Enable capacity build skills professional development in every section in the social department.

4. To collaborate with other sections as needed.

Mission

1. To support and to provide information to the other sections of the social department.

2. To support all formats of the accounting to the other sections of the social department.

3. To collect the reports and project updates of all sections in the social department.

4. To summarize and report the results of operations from every section in the social department to the Archdiocese.

5. To follow the financial report every three months to the Archdiocese.

6. To enable capacity building of staff in all levels of the social department.

Credit Union

Fr.Worapoj  Wisitnondhachai

Manager

This section supports the cooperative saving and credit unions for catholic or non-catholic members of communities, such as parishes schools and villages, etc.

Framework

- To educate about cooperative saving and credit union by training seminars,

To coordinate and provide public information,

To visit and track progress and operations,

To support the establishment of new groups,

To provide other services according to the needs of each group.

Pastoral Care For The Poor

Fr.Sarawut  Amorndit

Manager

Framework

1. Hatai Karoon House for children and the Communita’ Incontro School

              - To provide shelter for the disadvantaged children.

              - To oversee the daily life of the children.

              - To provide an opportunity for education from grade 1 to 10.

              - To provide social, moral, ethical training and other activities, such as farming, art and craft, or sport, etc.

2. Coordination with St. Vincent de Paul Association

    - To collaborate with St. Vincent de Paul staffs at all levels.

    - To coordinate with St. Vincent de Paul groups in parishes.

3. Other services for the poor

    - To help children who have been affected by problems of society.

    - To help the disabled

    - To collaborate with other social-work teams in the Archdiocese of Bangkok.