COFOA leaders in Honduras, with the support of three new community organizers, gathered in January for an assembly to affirm the need to construct a regional hospital. These leaders come from the municipalities of Marale, Cedros, El Porvenir, and San…
With hunger rising in Haiti, 300 grassroots leaders, clergy, and allies from the People ’s Organization for the Development of Northeast Haiti (OPODNE) gathered for a general assembly in August, 2022 to launch a campaign to promote local agriculture and…
With hunger rising in Haiti, 300 grassroots leaders from the People’s Organization for the Development of Northeast Haiti (OPODNE) gathered in August 2022 to launch a campaign to fight hunger by supporting local Haitian farmers. Dozens of mayors, civic, religious,…
When local residents in Mumeya, a rural community in Eastern Rwanda, first began working with Faith in Action International they had to cross the border into Burundi to get health care. Many mothers died giving birth. After listening to 300…
One in five Salvadoran families lives on land they don’t own. They’ve been defrauded by developers. Without legal ownership, families cannot sell their property or borrow to make improvements, and their communities are in limbo, unable to obtain paved streets,…
Washington, DC. Faith in Action International, which has supported grassroots organizing in Haiti since 2014, welcomed USAID’s announcement today that it is sending an additional $56.5 million to Haiti to respond to the humanitarian crisis facing the Haitian people, but urged the agency to do more…
In 2022, COFOA expanded its work to ten of the fourteen departments in El Salvador and launched organizing in Guatemala and Honduras. Thousands of grassroots leaders from 150 communities prioritized local needs and secured investment in schools, clinics, roads, and…
In 2022, PICO Rwanda leaders from seven districts applied their learning and experience to protect the environment, build roads and schools, sustain new health clinics, and teach others to organize. Pastor John and Fr. Innocent took these lessons to support…
In March and April 2022, OPODNE surveyed 4,000 farmers in the Northeast Department. In August, three hundred leaders gathered to launch a campaign to revitalize local agriculture and fight hunger. OPODNE is organizing farmers into cooperatives and pushing USAID and…
"So many families do not have enough to eat while land lies fallow. We met with USAID and asked them to find a different way to invest in Haiti and help farmers grow enough food to feed our families. We…
