COFOA launched a national land rights campaign this past year. The RENACER (meaning reborn) campaign is giving hope to thousands of families across El Salvador. Approached by a few women in 2019, COFOA began organizing people from the residential development…
Fifteen years ago, Pastor John Rutsindintwarane began teaching community organizing to leaders in the isolated rural community of Mumeya. They chose the construction of a health clinic as their highest priority. This past year, PICO Rwanda leaders completed the construction…
In 2020, OPODNE led a widely praised health education campaign relying on radio and its network of local grassroots volunteer teams to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the Northeast. The campaign reached 35,000 people through local radio shows, training…
This year we have shared stories of grassroots leaders working for change across the world that began with an ordinary person deciding to stand up and get involved. When people decide to join an effort to change their community they…
Next month grassroots leaders from Nyarubuye, Rwanda will celebrate the opening of a new medical clinic that will serve 20,000 people who currently lack access to primary health care. This is the third large-scale clinic our partners in Rwanda have…
In April as we were all trying to figure out how to adapt to COVID we checked in with Florcie Tyrell, who leads Faith in Action International’s Haiti affiliate. She let us know how at-risk Northeast Haiti was to the…
When Deisy Cruz first got involved in improving her community, she began asking her neighbors what they wanted to see change. She heard about paving dirt streets, clean water and green spaces for children. When she dug deeper people told…
We are grassroots and faith organizations, with the support of faith leaders from Central America, Mexico and the United States, who believe in the fundamental dignity of each person, are conscious of the injustices committed against indigenous peoples and the…
