The Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Our foundational values of communication, trust, faith, context, future, and capacity inform the way we interact with project partners and develop new relationships. Scan the QR code to read more about these values and how they apply to our work.

Below is a breakdown of how Catholic Mission strives to address some of the SDGs through our work:

Poverty is more than simply a lack of income or resources. We seek to restore dignity to those we work with, enabling them to feel a sense of direction in life and give them the opportunity to achieve their dreams. A prime example of this has been our partnership with the Mother and Baby Home in Thailand.

We engage regularly with partners seeking to address food security. We collaborated with other NGOs to deliver emergency food relief packages to those in need in Cambodia. Additionally, our work with the Deberety Goat Farm seeks to provide the community in Emdibir with skills and resources to improve their livelihoods through goat breeding and the sale of by-products.

You will find much of our work has elements of education and/or increasing access to it; education is proven to be a primary driver for achieving positive social and economic outcomes in development. The Lideta Catholic Cathedral School scholarship program strives to improve education opportunities in Ethiopia regardless of a students financial situation.

We support projects which seek to directly benefit women and girls in accessing education and employment. The Kidist Mariam Centre in Meki is an excellent example of how these projects create positive change in the community. Additionally, our organization is committed to bridging equality gap by ensuring all projects meet our gender equality policy.

Meeting this goal is often an indirect benefit of our education-focused projects, as increased education leads to higher employment rates. Catholic Mission has previously partnered with St Vincents College of Education in Ghana to support the training of future leaders and teachers in the country.

Catholic Mission has a responsibility to be aware of how our partners around the world may be adversely impacted by ecological issues and how poverty may also influence behaviours that contribute further to the destruction of our common home. Our Ecological Action Plan also guides us in this process.

We strive to integrate good environmental practice into our projects. One example is the Phnom Voah Farm in Cambodia, which has recently earned its organic certification using innovative practices of reducing waste such as using all aspects of bananas and their plants for food products and packaging.