Manos Unidas is a Catholic organization that fights hunger, poverty, disease, and lack of education through eradicating the structural causes of injustice, unequal distribution of wealth, ignorance, and lack of solidarity. It consists of 14 institutions that support and finance development projects across Africa, South America, Asia, Oceania, and zones with high doctor to inhabitant ratios of 10,000:1, with headquarters in Europe and North America.