• Mission Together is a project of the Holy Childhood, one of the Pontifical Mission Societies, with a tradition of more than 160 years.

• Mission Together is the Church’s official charity for children. This status is rooted also in the Vatican II documents, for example:

Ad Gentes (Chapter IV, 38): “In Missionary Cooperation it is right that the Pontifical Missionary Societies should be given the first place, as they give Catholics a truly universal and missionary outlook and a means for an effective collection of funds.”

• Now known as Mission Together, the Holy Childhood Society in England and Wales used to be known as ‘Black Babies’, ‘Mission Club’ or Missionary Childhood’.

• Mission Together encourages children throughout the world to pray and share. It teaches children that they can be missionary through this double action.

• The unique motto of Mission Together is children helping children.

• Mission Together does a great deal of humanitarian work but its purpose is more than humanitarian aid or development. It is missionary. It supports the spiritual as well as physical wellbeing of children through prayer, educational and pastoral work and through collecting contributions for pastoral, educational, medical and humanitarian projects in poorer areas.

• Mission Together paves the way for the Church where other agencies cannot or do not want to do so. It uses the Church’s network; therefore, it is effective as well as far reaching.

• Its character is universal, attending to the needs of all without favouritism: a healthy balance to the recent growth of one-to-one fundraising projects which may sometimes neglect the universal and all embracing character of the Catholic Church.

• The unique spiritual and pastoral charism of Mission Together has been recognised by successive popes since 1843.

•   1,003   projects in   Africa    ($7,465,765),
  this helped 3,191,859 children
   

•      176   projects in   America    ($1,053,910),
  this helped 240,339 children
   

•   1,108   projects in   Asia   ($6,117,144),
  this helped 594,775 children
   

•        28   projects in   Europe   ($179,400),
  this helped 5,836 children
   

•        17   projects in   Oceania   ($111,330),
  this helped 31,721 children