CAFOD's partners worked with Nicanora and her community through our Hands On Altiplano project
CAFOD’s first overseas project was in the Caribbean island of Dominica in 1962. Today, we work across Latin America and the Caribbean, with programmes in Central America, the Andes and Brazil.
CAFOD's work is underpinned by the Latin American Church’s commitment to the Preferential Option for the Poor and its resolve to speak out for justice and peace for the poorest, most oppressed people.
We work with partners and organisations at local, national and continental level to:
tackle poverty both in urban and rural areas
create more peaceful and just societies
protect the environment
support women, young people and indigenous groups to have more say in political and economic life
respond to emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and armed conflict.
Our London office is named after Archbishop Oscar Romero, one of our earliest partners, who was assassinated by the Salvadoran military in 1980.
The theme of this year's Human Rights Day focuses on how human rights are a pathway to solutions, playing a critical role as a preventative, protective and transformative force for good.
In Honduras, when people raise their voices to call attention to the environmental damage caused by large-scale industrial projects, they put their lives at risk.
If deforestation continues, the Amazon will lose its ability to produce its own rainfall and the largest rainforest on the planet will become dry grassland.
We are deeply saddened by the news that anti-mining activist Juan Lopez was shot dead in Honduras as he travelled home in his car from church.
CAFOD has responded to the assassination of Juan Lopez, an environmental activist in Honduras who was shot and killed on his way home from church.
Unprecedented rainfall left homes and infrastructure wrecked in Brazil, but there is hope amid the destruction, as the most affected families start to rebuild their lives.
An overwhelming 98 per cent of the population of Cajamarca, Colombia, voted to reject mining in the area, yet Colombian authorities and the mining corporation are still disputing the validity of the results.
In the past, the community was regularly terrorised by armed men who would shoot indiscriminately, kill livestock and set fire to their crops and straw houses.
A community near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia have come together to clear the tons of waste that washed up on their doorstep.
Local experts working with CAFOD in El Salvador continue to stand up for peace, against injustice and repression, in Oscar Romero’s name.
