Organizational Transformation of Caritas et Labora Human Resource Service Cooperative for sustainability growth

Abstract

Caritas et Labora is a Spanish word for “Love and Labor,” a Service Cooperative founded on July 7, 2007, under the leadership of Archbishop Emeritus of Manila, his Eminence Gaudencio B. Cardinal, to help our Filipino compatriots who are on the fringes of the unemployed; the cooperative came from the womb of Caritas Manila Inc., a non-profit organization that serves as the Catholic Church's principal social care and development ministry in the Philippines. Total human development, poverty relief, and the formation of a Christian community with a strong social conscience are all organization's goals. To address the harsh reality of having poor job opportunities where many potential workers are experiencing unemployment problems, Fr. Antonio Cecilio T. Pascual is the cooperative's brainchild and the executive director of Caritas Manila. He set up a program aimed at raising the living standards of the Filipinos.