In North and Northeast Haiti, smallholder farmers are organizing not only to improve their harvests — but to shape the future of agricultural policy and investment in their region. The People’s Organization for the Development of Haiti (OPODHA) now has…
In 2024, Meshack Ahsembz attended a community organizing training with 75 other laypeople and Anglican clergy in Muleba, Tanzania, close to the border with Rwanda. Then he traveled to Rwanda to meet with Faith in Action leaders from Mumeya, who’ve…
In 2023, OPODHA launched its “We Plant Today, So We Can Feed Our Families Tomorrow” campaign after listening to more than 4,000 smallholder farmers. In 2025, OPODHA used the final $50,000 in funding from the Inter-American Foundation to purchase irrigation…
Amid the collapse of government services, rising violence, and economic instability, grassroots leaders from the People’s Organization for the Development of Haiti (OPODHA) are pooling their resources to survive. They’ve organized 54 mutual aid lending funds with 3,132 enrolled members…
In 2018, grassroots leaders from two communities in El Salvador worked with Comunidades de Fe Organizadas en Acción (COFOA) to obtain title to their land — an effort that would grow into a national campaign affecting hundreds of thousands of…
In 2023, Archbishop José Vicente Nácher Tatay invited COFOA to work with the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa to empower people to improve conditions in their communities. From the start, he encouraged organizers to listen to people’s priorities, with special attention to…
Faith in Action International has grown from 40 communities in 2019 to more than 360 in 2025. We're now supporting grassroots, bottom-up change in 13 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Eastern Europe. In 2025, new organizing took…
In 2025, with democracy under stress globally, more than 9,000 people across 350 communities in 13 countries took the risk to stand up, speak out, and organize for change as grassroots leaders in Faith in Action International. They did the…
Residents of Mushikili, a rural settlement in the Kirehe District in Eastern Rwanda, began organizing their community more than a year ago. They formed a dependable team of 21 people, 11 of whom are women, who meet every other week…
Baakoniaba Community Faith Alliance joined traditional leaders and local government officials on November 28, 2025, to break ground on a new health center for their community in the Sunyani District. Muslim and Christian residents in Baakoniaba have been organizing together…
