COFOA Leaders in Guatemala Meet with Candidates for Mayor
While Guatemalan political protest is turning national politics upside down, forcing the entire administration out of office, COFOA leaders are working to make local political leaders accountable as well. About one-hundred community leaders met with candidates for Office of Mayor…
PICO Delegation Visits Organizing Projects Across Northeast Haiti
In Capotille, along the Dominican Republic border, the delegation witnessed entire families in the peanut farmers’ cooperative coming together to harvest their crops. Cooperative members make decisions together as they build an enterprise to feed their families and improve prospects…
Santa Clara Engineering Students Team Up with Nyange Leaders to Test a Tile-Press
Dorosella and the women of the cooperative were excited to work with Engineers Without Borders students to assemble and test a new tile-press, which will reduce the labor needed to shape roofing tiles. One quiet woman, Mediatrice, took the wrench…
OPODNE’s Terrier Rouge Leaders Planning Restaurant Cooperative to Lift Local Economy
With an investment of $3,000, OPODNE leaders will establish a restaurant that caters to the hundreds of people who travel weekly to and from Cap Haitien and the Dominican Republic. In anticipation, some of these leaders are attending training in…
COFOA El Carmen Leaders Hold Big Party to Celebrate Bridge Over Rio Roldan
Ms. Yanira Marklin James has expressed her distress at being forced to wait for hours to get her young son with a serious heart condition across the Rio Roldan. Now she is celebrating with Pr. Cortes and Bishop Alvarado, Anglican…
PICO-Rwanda’s Rusomo Leaders Are Laying the Foundation for a New Organization and a New Health Clinic
With training provided by Pr. John, leaders in Rusomo have completed more than 165 one-to-one conversations which affirmed the need and vision for a health clinic. This young, motivated leadership group wants to be involved in every aspect of constructing…
Amazing! New Organizing Project in Rusumo Is Already Starting to Build a Health Clinic
In June, Pr. John met the people in Rusumo and heard stories about their need for a health clinic. This month they have already begun construction! For decades, refugees travelled through Rusumo to and from Tanzania. There has been no…
Victory! Road Construction Under Way in El Carmen
Rural roads, sometimes impassable during the rainy season, are now being repaired due to public pressure by the farmers trained and organized by COFOA at the invitation of the El Carmen’s Anglican Church in El Salvador. Negotiations with the mayor's…
Join the PICO Delegation to Haiti August 16-23
PICO is making a difference in rural Northeast Haiti, training leaders who have started viable economic development projects - peanut, chicken and fishing co-ops. We invite you to join the delegation and meet leaders from OPODNE, Haiti’s PICO Project established by…