Earlier this month, 200 leaders from Comunidades de Fe Organizadas en Accion (COFOA) gathered to celebrate fifteen years of successful work. Your donations have enabled COFOA to hire two-dozen residents and young professionals who are working with grassroots teams in…
In August, three hundred leaders from Organization of People for the Development of Northeast Haiti (OPODNE) used their General Assembly to launch a campaign against hunger, "We PLANT TODAY SO WE CAN FEED OURSELVES TOMORROW". They’re pushing aid agencies sign a covenant to…
“We are not going to stop until they deliver the deeds”, said Heidi de Henriquez. In September. 800 leaders of the Communities of Faith Organized in Action (COFOA), from ten departments, gathered outside the Ministry of Housing offices to demand…
“We would like to thank Fr. Innocent Rugaragu who traveled all the way from Rwanda to come and support our community in our villages in Kenya. – Jackson, Maasai Transformation Organization Seeing the successful work in Rwanda, where local grassroots…
“Let Haitians decide who their leaders should be,” – Francois Pierre Louis, Faith in Action Haiti Director People in Haiti are dying every day because of gang violence, hunger and cholera because government has collapsed. OPODNE is organizing locally and…
With hunger rising and the fall planting season coming, over 300 leaders and allies of the People ’s Organization Working for the Development of Northeast Haïti (OPODNE) gathered for their general assembly in August. They unveiled a campaign to promote…
Over the past month, COFOA leaders in El Salvador have continued their systematic campaign to improve life in the poorest communities in El Salvador: listening to their communities, organizing meetings with mayors, national legislators and ministers of the Bukele administration,…
Training in the Faith in Action method of community organizing is capturing the imagination and unlocking the power of marginalized communities across Africa. Fifteen years ago, in Mumeya, Rwanda, Ezra, Poline, Specioza and so many other Mumeyans responded to Pr…
Nyarubuye to plan and begin construction of three new classrooms to serve children in that community. PICO Rwanda leaders gathered to make commitments to use their own resources including available land, stones for building, water for cement, and labor for…
Fifteen years ago, eight-hundred leaders from the La Paz Department gathered to formally establish COFOA. Their first issue was stopping a corporation from contaminating a river, which was the course of their drinking water. Since then, COFOA has continued to…
