After the Romanian revolution in 1989 and the end of communism, the Catholic Church resumed its charity work and the different Roman Catholic dioceses founded local Caritas organisations to systematically address the social problems of their communities, for example by distributing aid received from abroad among those most vulnerable.

Over the years, other diocesan Caritas organisations were established in the Greek Catholic eparchies and subsequently affiliated with the Caritas Romania Confederation.

One of the first important activities launched in 1994 was the home care programme, supported both financially and methodologically by Caritas Germany.

Its goal was to provide support to the poor, elderly population especially in rural areas, by supplementing the care and informal assistance provided by relatives, neighbours and volunteers with professional services at a moderate costs.

[3] Other activities implemented by Caritas Romania were the counselling of people with special needs, emergency response in emergency situations, such as caused by natural disasters (e.g. 2005 floods[6]) or conflict (influx of Ukrainian refugees after the 2022 Russian invasion[7]), and anti-drug prevention and counselling programmes.