Offering spiritual, healing and practical assistance to communities with the greatest need by:
 | Building schools, chapels, churches, and community centres |
| Providing education, pastoral care, and emergency relief |
| Training and supporting lay catechists |
| Providing hygiene, health, nutrition, and literacy programmes, medicines, clinics, and hospitals. |
Assisting those threatened by chronic shortages of food, healthcare, religious, and general education, which help to:
| Nurture the dignity and self-respect of children in their local communities |
| Provide long term protection against future crises |
| Support thousand of children in kindergartens, schools, orphanages, refuges, homes for the developmentally disabled, health and nutrition programmes in 160 countries. |
Supports the education, formation, and physical well being of young women and men entering the priesthood or religious life and the training of catechist leaders in developing countries.
These everyday needs are addressed with sensitivity and care which allows and encourages the people to maintain their dignity and self-esteem. Each local community invites our assistance for their particular needs. This commitment and dedication to the poor is a living witness, making Jesus present and known to the world.