Helping Hands Medical Missions
We provide short-term trips by medical personnel to poor areas throughout Latin America to provide medical attention in the fullness of the Catholic tradition.  Many of the natives in the areas we serve have never received medical attention of any kind.  Consistent with our intent to provide long-term transformation of poverty in body, mind and spirit, we also use these missions to provide medical training, equipment, and supplies to enable local physicians to better serve their communities, and we frequently return to mission sites to provide follow-up care and support.
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Mano Amiga ("Helping Hand") Schools
Education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty in the poorest areas of Mexico and other Latin American countries.  We address this through education centers we call "Mano Amiga" ("Helping Hand") schools.  These Catholic schools start as grade schools and grow into educational centers for the entire area, as we add middle schools, high schools, and adult education and job training courses and facilities.
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Mission Youth
Mission Youth offers young people the opportunity to step outside of themselves and make a difference. Since the Extreme Missions began in 2001, over 40 missions have been completed with the help of hundreds of participants. Close to 1,000 individuals have been directly impacted by projects which include building chapels, homes and fixing over 300 roofs.
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Emergency Food & Medical Shipment Program
The men, women and children who benefited from our relief shipment live in the poorest areas of the Philippines. Through the Missionaries of the Poor sisters, free mobile clinics (with the assistance of doctors and nurses) distribute this much needed food and medicine, helping over 30,000 desperate people.
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MANOS Nutrition Sponsor Program
2008: This is the first time that we delivered supplements to Mano Amigo Students. Our study convinced us that we should replicate this project in additional Mano Amiga Schools. It is proven that children who regularly eat breakfast have better test scores, better behavior and are less hyperactive than children who miss breakfast.
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Communidade Mão Amiga Perricone
In Brazil's’s largest cities there is a critical need to mount and sustain a multi-pronged effort to get the most vulnerable children off the streets, break a cycle of pervasive poverty and desperation, and restore family life.  We are launching a simultaneous assault on four vital fronts, beginning in Sao Paulo’s poorest neighborhood, and following into Rio de Janeiro, to eventually include a total of 19 communities throughout the country
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Evangelizadores de Tiempo Completo - Full-time Lay Missionaries
While Latin American countries include many of the largest Catholic populations in the world, its constitutions and public life are among the most secular anywhere.  Moreover, the large population and vast territorial expanse of the typical parish (some with up to 20-30 chapels), as well as the numerous languages spoken by the wide variety of indigenous Indians, renders effective personal ministry by the limited number of priests exceedingly difficult.
Catholic World Mission's "Evangelizadores" are the solution: lay people full trained in the Faith and paid to work full-time under the direction of the parish priest and/or local bishop.
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