Manos Unidas is the Spanish Catholic Church Organisation for the aid, promotion and development of the
Third World. It is at the same time a Catholic and secular Non-Governmental Development Organisation
(NGDO), made up of volunteers.
It is our mission to fight against famine, nutritional deficiency, poverty, disease, underdevelopment, and
lack of education; and to work to eradicate the structural causes producing them: injustice, unequal distribution
of goods and opportunities among people and communities, ignorance, prejudices, lack of solidarity,
indifference and the crisis of human and Christian values (Articles of Association, Art. 5). Manos Unidas, inspired by the Gospel and the social doctrine of the Church, maintains
two lines of work:
● Raising the awareness and denouncing the existence of hunger and
underdevelopment, their causes and possible remedies.
● Obtaining economic means to finance the programmes, plans and
comprehensive development projects aimed at dealing with these needs.

Since 2006 Manos Unidas has worked toward the 8 Millennium Development Goals, each for year, offering all the information about each Goal and sensibilizating about evertything that each person could do for aproach them.

In 2014, we had focused our year?s campaign on the eighth Millennium Development Goal that seeks to ?develop a
global partnership for development?. Without this partnership, without a great confluence of forces at all
levels, both North and South, it will be impossible to meet a challenge like the one faced by the problem of
hunger. The slogan we have used in the campaign, ?A New World, a Common Project?, aims to synthesize
this aspiration, this joining of forces. The campaign poster, which has accompanied the slogan, contains numerous
silhouettes referring to peace, voluntary work, justice, education, health, equality, fairtrade... and
also to other basic dimensions of development and solidarity which, together, seek to shape the image of
the ?new world? to which we aspire, to whose construction we are all invited. The central image expresses
growth in terms of fraternity and peace, universal fraternity as a necessary condition for creating conditions
for full development. Only in this way, through justice, love and peace, will we be able to open up a really
solid horizon for building the great human family in our world.

In 2014, Manos Unidas has supported 608 new development cooperation projects in 57 countries with the highest poverty rates in Africa, America and Asia. The amount of the projects approved this year totalled 39,806,408.50 euros allocated entirely to the improvement of the quality of life of more than 2,545,000 people who live in conditions of poverty and exclusion, deprived of their most basic rights.

This year 2015 is for us, so special and we are doing the complete review of all that MDG and preparing the Spanish society and our present and futur work, about the new Global Goals adn preparing the New Development Agenda working with othe organizations in Spain and in Europe and America, into the networks of: CIDSE (catholic international cooperation for Development and Solidarity), COncORD (confederation for cooperation of Relief and Development ngOs) and cOngDE (coordinator for Spanish Development ngOs) and others.

The next three years Manos Unidas will be focused on the New Global Goals and especially on food sovereignty NATIONAL
The 70 manos Unidas delegations have a leading role in these awareness and fund-raising tasks, carrying out many activities. Chek the complete report of Spain in http://www.manosunidas.org/sites/default/files/05.annual_report_2014-english_0.pdf

INTERNATIONAL: In 2014 Manos Unidas has approved a total of 608 projects, in 57 countries, for a sum of 39,806,408.50 euros.

In 2014, Manos Unidas has supported 608 new development cooperation projects in 57 countries with the highest poverty rates in Africa, America and Asia. The amount of the projects approved this year totalled 39,806,408.50 euros allocated entirely to the improvement of the quality of life of more than 2,545,000 people who live in conditions of poverty and exclusion, deprived of their most basic rights.

Despite the progress of some of the goals on the Development Agenda and the increase of economic growth in some countries, inequality and the gap between those who have the most and those who have the least continues to increase.

The growing political instability in many countries, armed conflicts, religious persecution, the increase in human being trafficking networks, the effects of climate change on more vulnerable populations resulting in prolonged droughts, floods or epidemics, not only accentuate the conditions of poverty and insecurity of millions of people, but are some of the causes underlying the increasing internal displacement and migration.

During 2014 manos Unidas has responded to 41 emergency situations amounting to 1,633,000 euros in over 20 countries. Our response to emergencies has always been made through local partners and in coordination with other humanitarian organisations or agencies.

The Ebola crisis which emerged mid-year severely affecting countries such as Sierra Leone and Liberia led to the immediate response of our donors, thanks to which we could make a first immediate delivery of funds. in the middle and near East we have supported interventions in gaza, iraq and Syria.

Struck by the efforts of millions of people to escape poverty, we have continued accompanying, evaluating and identifying new proposals for projects that promote sustainable development or deal with emergencies arising directly from the needs of the communities and local partners we work with.

Coordination with other national and international development organisations has been an important factor in the
search for greater efficiency in our work. Africa is stillthe continentto which we devoted greater effort
and economic investment this year.

The vast majority of the projects identified by our extensive network of local partners and the communities with which
we work have soughtto facilitate access to basic services and promoted the right to education, health, water and food.

An example of this has been the building of health and educational infrastructures, the implementation of awareness, immunization, water and sanitation or agricultural programmes, and income generation for the poorest.
Inequalities and extreme poverty, both in the urban and in rural areas in which we work in Latin America and Asia, still persist in countries with a low rate of development. Our projects have been oriented both at sensitization and awarenessraising of rights such as strengthening men and women?s empowerment, and encouraging the minimum conditions for achieving sustainable livelihoods to address their needs. An example of this has been supporting educational initiatives micro-credits, agriculturaltraining, construction of infrastructures for irrigation, drinking water or sanitation, always contemplating the gender approach.
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