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…
Peru and Colombia: Faith in Action responds to invitations from Bishops, clergy, and faith leaders COFOA staff joined Faith in Action International Coordinator, Gordon Whitman, for meetings with clergy and community leaders in Lima, Peru, and Bogotá, Colombia. Over…
Read about the progress COFOA leaders made in March to win legal title to their properties, rally Salvadorans against the reintroduction of mining which would devastae El Salvador's fragile water system, and win schools, potable water, electricity and better roads…
While sixty COFOA leaders from fifteen villages in the rural northern region of Francisco Morazan Department waited in front of the National Ministry of Health offices, a team of five leaders negotiated with the Vice Minister of Health, Nerza Paz,…
Communities of Faith Organizing for Action (COFOA) is growing its organizing presence and power in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and providing a model to launch work in Mexico. In El Salvador, 2,335 COFOA leaders organizing efforts in138 communities to secure nearly…
Last Wednesday, grassroots leaders from Communities of Faith Organizing for Action (COFOA) in Honduras unloaded hundreds of meters of plastic pipe that they will help install to bring clean, drinkable water to 245 homes in the small village of Guadalupe,…
"For a long time we felt abandoned by everyone. Every day we struggled just to get by. Today, because of COFOA organizing, we have electricity in our homes. Now we have a little hope.” Juliana Aguilar, COFOA leader in Villa…
COFOA is growing because leaders are identifying and scaling up issues deeply felt in many local As President Bukele consolidates political power and centralizes control over funding, marginalized communities are uniting and pushing back. communities into a national campaign. On…
COFOA's new organizing efforts in Honduras and Guatemala are growing and reaching a point where local teams are beginning to negotiate improvements in basic public health infrastructure. As in El Salvador, COFOA's approach is to start with local issues that…
In the rural areas outside Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, some families must travel seven hours on bad roads for hospital care. With support from the new Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, José Vicente Nácher, COFOA-Honduras is working to build support for…
