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Progressio is a progressive international charity with Catholic roots that enables poor communities to solve their own problems through support from skilled workers. And we lobby decision-makers to change policies that keep people poor. We were formerly the Catholic Institute for International Relations.

Our vision is for every person in the communities where we work to have choices and opportunities, to have their human rights respected, to have their basic needs met and to live a fulfilled life.

We tackle poverty by:

• Changing lives - Enabling poor communities to solve their own problems through the placement of 100 highly-skilled people (known as development workers) from around the world. They work with grassroots organisations in long-term projects benefiting hundreds of thousands of poor and marginalised people in 11 developing countries.
• Changing minds - As well as working with local people we also lobby decision-makers, to challenge the structures and relationships that combine to keep people poor. 
• Mobilising people - to act, because every step, however small, helps to achieve lasting change.

We have an active membership drawn from people of all faiths and none

Download a copy of our Annual Review:

Annual Review 2008/9 (900k PDF)