Caritas Latin America and Caribbean

Caritas Latin America and Caribbean

Cáritas América Latina y el Caribe
Abbreviation	Cáritas LAC
Type	Nonprofit
Location	San Jose, Costa Rica
Origins	Catholic Social Teaching
Region served	Latin America and the Caribbean
Fields	development aid, humanitarian aid, social services
Official language	Spanish
President	Gustavo Rodríguez Vega
Parent organization	Caritas Internationalis
Website	caritaslatinoamerica.org

Caritas Latin America and Caribbean (Spanish: Cáritas América Latina y el Caribe; Portuguese: Cáritas América Latina e Caribe) is a network of Catholic nonprofit organisation active in Latin America and the Caribbean and one of the seven regions of the global Caritas Internationalis confederation.^[1]

Its name is used both for the regional secretariat and its network of 22 member organisation, but the secretariat is also known as Secretariado Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Caritas (SELACC).^[2]