The people of El Salvador are in distress, quarantined by COVID-19, suffering deadly flooding, and many are unable to care for their families. COFOA is responding in this moment of multiple crises by collecting and distributing food and water to…
LOVE (Lideres Organizados por sus Valores y Esperanza – Leaders Organized for Values and Hope) is COFOA’s campaign to meet the needs of the most vulnerable. For the past month, staff and leaders have been reaching out to families in…
Everyone needs clean water during this public health crisis. Poor communities are at great risk when they don’t have access. COFOA leaders are pressing forward on securing water for those communities. The COFOA organization in rural San Juan Opico just…
See how six hundred families from two rural communities in San Juan Opico are celebrating because they have clean water for the first time. Supported by COFOA, leaders organized a legal cooperative; contributed $14,000 of their own money; and negotiated…
“Clean water for me, for you, for everyone; every day!” COFOA leaders chant Most families in Soyapango get water service only once every nine days. As a result, sanitation and health conditions are horrible. Despite rising violence, leaders from St…
Fighting for water in Soyopango. “Clean water for me, for you, for everyone; every day” is the cry of COFOA leaders from the Los Santos neighborhood who met with Councilwoman Demaris Medina and other officials to find out what the…
El Salvador: COFOA leaders in Soyopango choose water as their most urgent need. More than 75 leaders from three neighborhoods gathered at St. Francis Assisi Parish to prioritize the issues they heard from hundreds of households in Soypango. One leader,…
El Salvador: COFOA presses legislators to fix property laws. After staging a protest in front of local legislative offices, 60 COFOA leaders met with Assembly Deputy, Rosa Romero to press for and extension of legislation needed to permit development companies…
