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House Reaches 218 Threshold to Force Vote on Extending TPS
Faith in Action issued this statement as the House reached the threshold to force a floor vote on Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 hardworking Haitian immigrants. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives made history: 218 Members…
Tanzania: New Public High School Brings Secondary Education to Rural Communities
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…
Haiti: Irrigation Equipment Enables Small-Holder Farmers to Alleviate Hunger
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…
HAITI: Mutual Loan Funds Build Collective Economic Power
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…
El Salvador: Land Rights Breakthrough Delivers Property Titles and Hope to Thousands of Families
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…
Honduras: Regional Medical Center Will Improve Health in Rural Communities
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…
Our movement is growing
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…
2025 Impact Report: Making Democracy Work
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…
RWANDA: Community Organizes for Clean Water and Bridge
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…