Progressio (1940–2017) was an international development charity that enabled poor communities to solve their own problems by support from skilled workers.
The organisation attempted to influence decisionmakers, secular and religious alike, to support liberation movements and to guard against human rights abuses.
The first vice-president was Christopher Dawson, but practical organization was in the hands of Richard O'Sullivan KC; Barbara Ward; and Professor A. C. F. Beales of London University and his wife, Freda.
[5] The aims behind the movement were set out in a letter to The Times (December 21, 1941) that was signed jointly by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York (Cosmo Gordon Lang and William Temple), by Cardinal Hinsley and by the Moderator of the Free Churches (W. H. Armstrong).
[11] Progressio development workers had a minimum of two years' work experience, often with a background in training that was formal or informal.
[12] Throughout its history, the organisation attempted to influence decisionmakers, secular and religious alike, to support liberation movements and to guard against human rights abuses.