The Parish Caritas of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa is a public canonical legal entity, subject in Canon Law to obligations and rights in accordance with the nature of an institute of the Catholic Church, to perform the duties indicated in its statutes, in order to the ecclesial public good, canonically erected by decree of the Bishop of the Diocese of Évora on June 7, 1989 and under his supervision and tutelage, with the current Statutes approved by this ecclesiastical authority and published in DR of March 16, 1990.
This institution pursues the ecclesial public good in its area of intervention, in accordance with the norms of the Catholic Church and aims to promote Christian charity, culture, education and community and social integration, from the perspective of the values of the Gospel, of all the inhabitants of the community where it is located, especially the poorest, orienting their social charitable action in the light of the Church's Social Doctrine, taking into account, among others, accepting the coordination of the diocesan Bishop in accordance with their legal autonomy in accordance with the Statutes, and where these are omitted, by the Code of Canon Law, by the Apostolic Letter in the form of on the service of charity, by particular legislation and applicable civil laws.
Cáritas de Vila Viçosa has its headquarters at Rua Padre Joaquim Espanca, 13 - 7160-261 Vila Viçosa since in 1995, through a Project to Fight against Poverty (1995-1997), it was able to acquire the building. which started to function as its headquarters. Simultaneously, with the acquisition of the building, it was also sought to create a Community Center that would promote an integrated development of the local community in a participative and solidary way. The dynamic that emerged from the creation of this Community Center meant that all the activities of Cáritas de Vila Viçosa underwent a major transformation, increasing not only the number of users covered by its activities, but also a diversification of the Institution's areas of intervention.
At the moment, Cáritas is in Vila Viçosa, an institution with a very large development dynamic, playing an increasingly important role in the fight against social exclusion among the most marginalized populations in the municipality.