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Mercadillo Solidario de la Fundación CARF 2025 | 29ª Edición

29TH EDITION

Solidarity Market

Collection of: furniture, antiques, works of art, vintage clothes, household goods, crockery...

Deadline until October 31.

Contact the Patronato de Acción Social beforehand. The flea market will be held from November 11 to 15, 2025.

Help collect items!

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CARF Foundation Board of Trustees for Social Action

Patronato de Acción Socieal de la Fundación CARF

What is the Patronato de Acción Social?

The Patronato de Acción Social (PAS) is an entity of the Foundation. CARF. Its objective is to complement its activity of serving the Church and diocesan priests by coordinating all volunteer assistance. 

How does it contribute?

  • The provision of vestments and liturgical objects to newly ordained priests by means of the "Rucksack of Sacred Vessels.
  • Medical-health assistance for priests or seminarians displaced from their countries of origin, and care and assistance for elderly priests who lack companionship.
  • Material support for various tasks in parishes in needy countries, enabling priests to devote their time fully to their pastoral mission.
  • Support for the installation and maintenance of parish churches, outbuildings or parish medical clinics in distressed areas.
  • The provision of books of doctrinal content for libraries and development cooperation actions.

What does the Patronato de Acción Social do?

The Patronato de Acción Social organizes various weekly workshops and specific activities to raise funds that are then invested in the formation of seminarians and priests from 131 countries.

Workshops and activities

All of them are held at the Patronato's headquarters: Reina Mercedes, 22. 1º, Puerta 12 (28020 Madrid).

From 11:00 to 13:30 h. and from 17:00 to 20:00 h.
We collect donations of furniture and antiques that we restore and then sell. If you have knowledge about antiques or restoration of furniture and furnishings, we need you! We are open from 5:30 pm to 8 pm. 
Our volunteer team sews and embroiders the albs and liturgical linens. They are then delivered, along with the Holy Vessel Cases, to each seminarian who completes his formation and returns to his diocese to be ordained. We need many hands and enthusiasm. From 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Our volunteers sell all the donations (clothes, household goods, decorative objects, etc.) that come to us to raise funds to finance the intellectual, human and spiritual formation of seminarians and priests of the universities in Rome and Pamplona. From 17:30 to 20:00 hours.
The team of volunteers weaves baby clothes that we sell through our weekly flea market and the large biannual flea markets that we organize at the Patronato de Acción Social de la Fundación CARF. We also do commissioned work for individuals and companies. From 17:30 to 20:00 hours.

Events organized by the Patronato de Acción Social

Meriendas y eventos solidarios del Patronato de Acción Social de la Fundación CARF
Thursday: solidarity snacks
Coordinates: Rosana Diez-Canseco.
Testimonies with priests, seminarians or relevant personalities. We organize these meetings on an ad hoc basis and invite them for a snack in order to donate the proceeds to the CARF Foundation.
Mercadillo semestral del Patronato de Acción Social de la Fundación CARF
Biannual flea market
Coordination: Rosana and Carmen.
Next date: unconfirmed.
Every three months we organize a solidarity market where we sell the things that come to us. 
Annual flea market
Coordination: Rosana and Carmen.
Upcoming event: November 11 to 15.
Collection from: furniture, antiques, works of art, vintage clothing, household goods, tableware...
Deadline: Until October 31.
Deliver to: Patronato de Acción Social. Calle Reina Mercedes, 22. 1º, door 12. 28020 Madrid. Write or call before delivering the material.
PhonesRosana, 659 057 320. Carmen, 659 378 901.
Mail: patronatodeaccionsocial@gmail.com

Who are the members of the Patronato de Acción Social?

Rosana Diez-Canseco, presidenta del Patronato de Acción Social de la Fundación CARF

Rosana Diez-Canseco

Carmen Ortega, presidenta del Patronato de Acción Social de la Fundación CARF

Carmen Ortega

Maite Elices

Maite Elices

Bel Alarcón

Bel Alarcón

María José Ivars

María José Ivars

Cristina Gavarrón

Guadalupe Marina

Elena Gomez

Lola Fenoll

Lola Fenoll

Isabel Otero

Isabel Otero

PAS History

The initiative to create the PAS arose in 1989 thanks to the drive of a small group of women, Tere Lledias, Lola Olagibel and Cristina Alonso, who thought about how to promote activities to involve many people in the task of praying for priestly vocations and for seminarians, and to raise funds for those who do not have the means to pay for their studies.

This last objective has focused, in a very special way, on seminarians from third world dioceses who lack the minimum resources. This gave rise to the idea of supporting CARF in the search for people to contribute money and time to obtain study grants to enable them to study in Rome and Pamplona.

In addition, as a detail at the end of their studies, they are given a backpack (Case of Sacred Vessels) with all the sacred elements necessary to be able to celebrate the Holy Mass in any corner of the planet, where there is not even a humble chapel to celebrate the Eucharist.
Do you want to help the Patronato de Acción Social?
Become a volunteer of the Patronato de Acción Social and help in one or all of the activities, workshops and work they do. By helping the PAS you will be collaborating with the formation of priests and seminarians from more than 130 countries. 
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