Netty Klein-Hoffman has been appointed as the new chair of Hëllef um Terrain (HUT), the organisation that took on delivering social services from Caritas Luxembourg following a €61 million embezzlement scandal at the charity.
Klein-Hoffmann officially takes up the role on Sunday – 1 February – replacing Claudia Monti, who stepped down from the role after less than a year. Monti began as chair in April 2025, after ending her term as ombudsman. She served as the Grand Duchy’s mediator for eight years.
From 2015 to 2024, Klein-Hoffmann was secretary general of Copas, the lobby group representing care providers in Luxembourg.
Klein-Hoffmann will be supported in her role by Vafa Moyaed as vice-president, Sophie Le Maner as treasurer and Marisa Roberto as secretary, under a raft of new appointments which will also take effect from Sunday.
At the beginning of January, Monti announced on her LinkedIn profile that she is now working as head of the department for children’s rights at the Ministry of Education.
HUT was formed after some €61 million was discovered misappropriated from Caritas Luxembourg, which was formerly the largest charitable organisation in the Grand Duchy.
It provided social services to the homeless, working poor, refugees and asylum seekers, and families and children in distress.
While Caritas was not officially dissolved (the foundation and also its “Accueil et Solidarité” branch are still listed in the business register), the government deemed it too risky to provide new funds to the organisation while it still had debts incurred during the embezzlement.
Most Caritas staff moved to HUT, although labour unions complained about employees being pressured to sign contracts.
Monti told RTL in December that HUT currently has 377 employees and is looking to hire more staff, having so far received almost €300,000 from donors.
(This article was originally published by the Luxemburger Wort. Machine translated using AI, with editing and adaptation by John Monaghan)