The diocesan Caritas associations are organised on a decentralised basis, i.e. they are legally independent.

[7] Caritas Germany is the largest social employer in the country with around 695,000 employees, 80% of which are women, and several hundred thousand volunteers.

[1] The work includes general social counselling services (such as suicide prevention or drug counselling), elderly care, health and nursing care, food banks and soup kitchens, as well as programmes supporting struggling families, people with disabilities, youth, unemployed persons, migrants and refugees, homeless people, sex workers, and other support to vulnearable and excluded communities.

It supports partner organisations in the implementation of development and humanitarian projects in over 70 countries around the world.

[8] Caritas Germany is headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau and maintains a representative office in Berlin as well as one in Brussels.