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All about us |
Identity and Structure
The International Kolping Society is a catholic social organization founded by Adolph Kolping. The members create a family-like and life accompanying community. The International Kolping Society promotes through education and activities the development of its members in many fields of the daily life. It consists of local Kolping families which form diocesan or regional organizations and National Kolping Societies.
Goals and tasks
According to its programme the Kolping Society wants to:- enable its members to prove themselves as Christians in the word
- in their profession, marriage and family, in the Church,society and state
- to offer help to its members and to the society as a whole
- to promote the common good in the Christian spirit through the active participation of its members, individually or as a group, and to take part in the continuing improvement and humanization of the society.
Members
Today the International Kolping Society is represented in 59 countries with more than 470,000 members around the world. The organization consists of regional groups, the so-called Kolping families. They are organized in diocesan and national organizations. Currently there are about 5,000 Kolping families world-wide.
Community of solidarity
The worldwide Kolping Society sees itself as a community of solidarity in which the members and Kolping families support and promote each other. Thus the International Kolping Society coordinates the development cooperation within the organization. Especially Kolping families in Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as in Middle and Eastern Europe profit from the development cooperation. The Kolping families in these regions understand themselves as self-help groups, by their activities they want to help people in solving their daily problems. |
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