As organized pressure from diaspora communities moved the United States to send vaccines to Haiti, OPODNE is paving the way for distribution in the Northeast Department. With COVID spiking, and continued uncertainty and political instability following the assassination of President…
When Ezra Nkubana was diagnosed with COVID, he was fortunate to be treated in a health center built through an organizing campaign he helped lead a decade ago. The Mumeya clinic was the first example of a Rwandan government planning…
On July 2, eight hundred COFOA leaders delivered personal letters to President Bukele. On July 27, COFOA received a letter from the President acknowledging the flaws in land rights legislation passed unanimously by the legislature and arranged for a meeting…
An estimated 350,000 families, close to 2 million people, have paid for a plot of urban land and built a house, but never received legal title so that their own homes were not a secure asset. They cannot pass property…
Without legal title to their home, access to water, and the ability to find jobs that pay a living wage, Salvadorans will continue to migrate to find a future for their families. While building the power to hold government officials…
As we all try to process the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in Haiti, we wanted to share what we are learning and doing, and what you can do concretely to make a difference. We’ve been checking in daily with Florcie…
More than 2,000 people have already signed onto our petition asking President Biden to send vaccines directly to Haiti. We’re continuing to add names. But given the urgency we sent an initial letter with 1,400 signatures to the White House…
Today’s struggles for democracy, human rights and economic security in Haiti are part a long and arduous movement for self-determination. Over and over the U.S. has chosen to side with Haitian elites over ordinary people, hand-picking government leaders who’ve lacked…
In June, with COVID cases surging in Haiti and hospital beds filling up, OPODNE re-launched its grassroot education and prevention campaign. In June OPODNE’s director, Florcie Tyrell and health team were interviewed by eight radio stations in Northeast Haiti. With…
Florcie Tyrell and the grassroots leaders from OPODNE in Northeast Haiti are sewing masks and distributing washing stations as fast as they can to slow the surge of COVID cases that have filled hospital beds and exhausted oxygen supplies. Yet,…
