We welcome leaders from Nyamata Lutheran Parish to the PICO Rwanda community as they initiate organizing efforts. Leaders have come together for training, are conducting outreach, and beginning work on community issues. After only a couple of months they have…
In addition to expansion reported last month into Cuidad Arce in La Libertad Department, COFOA has initiated three new organizing efforts In La Paz Department: one in two deeply gang-troubled neighborhoods of Zacetucola, another in rural Santa María Ostuma, and…
Presently, women are manufacturing about 2000 tiles per month with back breaking labor. They dig and mix clay from pits deep in the valley, carry it up a steep narrow path to the spot where they shape the tiles by…
With a small investment of $1400 from their own micro lending fund and $1000 from OPODNE, leaders in Capotille have launched a banana project. They have organized 70 farmers who have leased land, removed tree stumps, tilled the soil and…
Presidents from local leadership teams delivered reports to the OPODNE board in a continuing commitment to transparency and accountability that makes them so different than many NGOs in Haiti. More than 90 leaders and 600 people from 11 cities have…
A year ago, the PICO delegation witnessed 1000 people dedicate the health clinic in Rusumo that has been serving more than 100 people each day. This year, the PICO delegation arrived to see the clinic closed on the Saturday we…
Fighting the wave of voter apathy, COFOA leaders - clergy, adults and youth - contacted more than 2000 people in five municipalities and secured pledges to vote in the March 4 elections. They reached out door to door and at…
At the invitation of Fr. José León Chávez, COFOA has initiated a series of 12 leadership development sessions for 45 leaders at Santa Rosa de Lima in Ciudad Arce. This effort marks the expansion of COFOA faith based organizing into…
OPODNE is gaining a reputation as a transparent, reliable vehicle for social change in Haiti. The Digicel Foundation has chosen OPODNE as one of 22 finalists across Haiti in a competition that will invest $10,000 dollars in 10 organizations dedicated…
Five PICO delegates just returned from Rwanda. We saw clinics, schools, houses, water, electricity, community centers and business that people built from the ground up in isolated areas. But we were even more impressed with the confidence exuding from former…
