Vicente Ferrer Moncho (9 April 1920 – 19 June 2009)[1] was a Jesuit missionary who spent his life working to improve the lives of the poor in the mission he founded in Southern India.

Today the Vicente Ferrer Foundation carries out humanitarian projects in Andhra Pradesh, bringing aid to over 2.5 million poor people.

In his youth he was for a while affiliated with the POUM (Workers' Party of the Marxist Unification) and at 16 he was called up by the military to serve in the Spanish Civil War.

In 1958, after deciding to increase his focus on helping the poor, he and a group of followers created the "Rural Development Association" in Manmad (north of Mumbai).

However, a year later, he was granted permission to return and was allowed to continue his work in the poverty-stricken city of Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh.

Vicente in 1969 founded Rural Development Trust, a non-governmental organisation committed to the progress of vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, in Southern India.

Since its inception in 1969, the organisation has endeavoured to improve the quality of life of the rural poor, with a particular emphasis on women, children and people with disabilities.