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 cannot be neutral when families are put at risk,” said Bishop Dwayne Royster, Executive Director of Faith in Action. On Tuesday, February 2, Bishop Dwayne Royster stood with faith leaders from across the country in a packed church in Springfield,…
Alberto Velazquez directs COFOA, supporting organizing in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. “We've spent two decades developing grassroots leaders who are improving their communities and learning to govern themselves. These efforts are always at risk when powerful governments decide they can…
Jean Mirvil directs a school in Saint-Marc, Haiti, and chairs the board of OPODHA. He had to flee his school as gang violence spread north from Port-au-Prince. “I had to leave my students behind because violence is moving closer every day. Deporting…
Faith in Action International issued the following statement on behalf of Francois Pierre-Louis and Claudette David in response to Congress passing the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act as part of the 2026 National Defense Bill. “Faith in Action International applauds Congress for…
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…
