What we support

SINCE 1961 LCRA SUPPORTS CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, AND SOCIAL OUTREACH PROJECTS IN LITHUANIA AND ITS DIASPORA.

LCRA is dedicated to empowering the future of Lithuania and its global community by nurturing the values that matter most—faith, family, and education. We support Catholic educational, religious, and social outreach projects that inspire the young generation, strengthen family bonds, and support the elderly. Our mission is to support communities based on dignity and faith. With the endorsement of local bishops and religious superiors, we fund initiatives such as: spiritual and religious educational programs, leadership training for parish and diocesan leaders, youth camps that foster faith and community, programs supporting the elderly, Catholic media, direct aid for disaster relief efforts. By supporting LCRA through donations and legacy gifts, our benefactors play a crucial role in fulfilling this mission today and in the future.

Betzata community

Betzata Community Mission is to build a community-based living community with people with disabilities that will be an open reception / meeting place for anyone with or without disabilities to cultivate their gifts and share them.

A community that would become a place for personal change and a testimony to the value of each person to society. LCRA is a proud sponsor of Betzata community.

St. John's Foster Home in Lithuania

Children who grow up too fast…

Story of the St. John's Foster Home in Lithuania.

Children living here are given hope and a second chance in life. All children here come from various traumatized backgrounds. And while no one can erase them from the hearts of wounded children they can experience the joy of childhood as well as getting ready to go back into society as fully-fledged citizens. By supporting LCRA you support many of these initiatives that make our world a better place.

High-risk Pregnancy Center of the Archdiocese of Kaunas, Lithuania

Doctors help in case of illness, but where do we go in case of bereavement? What can help us to make up for the loss of our most precious baby? What do you do when your family's hope for a healthy baby with a beautiful smile is shattered? When doctors are no longer able to help, people entrust their

injured hearts to the staff of the Kaunas Archdiocese High-risk Pregnancy

Center. "There are many tears in the beginning. People come

frightened and isolated in their sadness. But we give them the opportunity to break out of their darkness and despair, to be freed and healed," says Aušra Bačėnė, coordinator of the High-risk Pregnancy Program.

With the support of Lithuanian Catholic Religious Aid, couples in

high-risk pregnancies are counseled by psychologists and given the

opportunity to attend Rachel's Vineyard retreat which enables them to learn how to cope and live with bereavement after an abortion, miscarriage or an unexpected death of a child.