The women of Nyange have built three homes for the neediest in their community, using bricks and roofing tiles made by hand. Now they have a clay mixer and tile press designed by Engineers without Borders students from Santa Clara…
Rusumo is the newest member of the PICO-Rwanda family. Their highest need is a health clinic. They negotiated with the government to secure land and gathered 14 tons of stones for the clinic foundation. Thanks to the generous support of…
COFOA leaders joined the Caravan for Life, Justice and Peace through Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the United State, bringing the stories of millions of people impacted by the failed war on drugs to the United Nations Special Session…
Mont Organise is the newest community organized by OPODNE. Thirty-five leaders started a pepper cooperative to improve their economic conditions and to make better use of their land. Pooling their own resources they purchased land and seeds. Last month, they…
Late last year, the OPODNE organizing committee in Mombin Crochu established a new partnership with the World Bank to launch a sorghum cooperative. Learning about OPODNE’s organizing, the World Bank made an investment of $75,000 to develop the effort. OPODNE…
When a Santa Clara student asked women leaders, “When was Nyange at its best?”, they all said ”right now”, because their tile-making cooperative is providing them with their first opportunity for a new life. With training and support of PICO Rwanda,…
COFOA leaders from the village of Galilee in El Salvador met with the Manager of Social Inclusion for Fondo Nacional de Vivienda Popular (FODAVIPO), Salvador Antonio Sanchez, to learn about the status of deeds for 175 property owners in this community…
Cholera has already killed more than 10 people in Mombin Crochu. As the OPODNE organizing committee completes planning for the sorghum project being developed in collaboration with the World Bank, they organized an education event to help the community learn…
The Women’s Cooperative in Nyange is building a new home for Epiphany, who is living with her two children in another family's home. Epiphany's husband disappeared during the 1994 genocide and her children are 22 and 26. This is the third…
COFOA youth leaders continue their work to involve young people in solving the problems that affect them most directly - violence and lack of employment. Miriam Cicilia has been hired as a new youth organizer. She will focus her work…
