FIMCAP is the international federation of catholic parochial youth movements, but even more a family for youth workers, youth and children all over the world. The name FIMCAP originates from the French title: Fédération Internationale des Mouvements Catholiques d’Action Paroissale. Today, Fimcap has more than twenty members around the world, situated in more than twenty countries on four continent
s. These organizations bring children and youth together during their leisure time. They form local groups, mostly set up in the neighbourhoods where the children and youth live. This community group life gives them the opportunity to play, to come together, to pray and to learn from other children and young people. FIMCAP wants to unite the member organizations in the spirit of brother/sisterhood and mutual understanding, to raise the members’ awareness that they belong to a world-wide community of children and youth in a globalised world. FIMCAP wants to show the life and needs of children and young people, not only in their own country but in the world. FIMCAP supports the member organizations through educational exchange.
