Serving Fiji through faith

Projects in more than 20 communities – schools, hospitals, villages and parishes
Advocacy, WASH, and disaster preparedness and response
We partner with communities to deliver real long term change

Our work in Fiji

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How we work

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Caritas Fiji is guided by the Gospel of love and the Catholic Social Teaching that call us to serve with compassion, justice, and hope. Our mission is to promote human dignity, social justice, and care for our common home by working in solidarity with the poor, marginalized, and vulnerable communities across Fiji.

For the vulnerable, who need us most

Our Catholic Social Teaching leads us to help those who need support the most – not those who it is easiest to support. This includes the poor, those in rural and remote communities, small islands, highlands, children, the youth, women and Fijians from all faiths and walks of life.

Human dignity: Water, disasters & advocacy

We work to deliver human dignity – the basics of life: water, sanitation, responses to natural disasters through our DRR program and safety, wellbeing and community cohesion through our advocacy programs.

Communities lead the way – we support

Communities in Fiji know what is best for them and have deep resilience and wisdom. We work with communities at every stage of every project – identifying needs, planning responses, delivery, and ongoing support. This lets each community chart their own path and their own destiny.

Caring for and protecting our shared home

Our planet and Fiji faces many challenges. Climate change is already affecting hundreds of communities in Fiji from more severe weather events, rising sea levels leading to displacement and increasing levels of debt for governments in the pacific. We advocate to ensure indigenous voices are heard in the global response to climate change.

For more about the Catholic Social Teaching see the below:
  • Compendium of the Social Positions of the Church from the Vactican website
  • Rerum Novarum Capital and Labour 1891, Pope Leo XIII – the foundational encyclical addressing the social and economic crises of the Industrial Revolution
  • Laudato Si On Care for our Common Home 2015, Pope Francis – a modern encyclical which addresses the ecological crisis by calling all people to take swift, unified global action to protect Eart from environmental degradation and unbridled consumerism
  • Fratelli Tutti On Fraternity and Social Friendship 2020, Pope Francis – a modern encyclical tacking a fragmented, post-pandemic world by calling for universal solidarity, peace, and social friendship to overcome global indifference and division

A team of local men moving a generously donated water tank several kilometers from Nasalia village to Burelevu village in Kadavu, one of the large south islands in Fiji in 2025

Our latest work

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