COFOA leaders joined the Caravan for Life, Justice and Peace through Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the United State, bringing the stories of millions of people impacted by the failed war on drugs to the United Nations Special Session…
Mont Organise is the newest community organized by OPODNE. Thirty-five leaders started a pepper cooperative to improve their economic conditions and to make better use of their land. Pooling their own resources they purchased land and seeds. Last month, they…
Late last year, the OPODNE organizing committee in Mombin Crochu established a new partnership with the World Bank to launch a sorghum cooperative. Learning about OPODNE’s organizing, the World Bank made an investment of $75,000 to develop the effort. OPODNE…
When a Santa Clara student asked women leaders, “When was Nyange at its best?”, they all said ”right now”, because their tile-making cooperative is providing them with their first opportunity for a new life. With training and support of PICO Rwanda,…
COFOA leaders from the village of Galilee in El Salvador met with the Manager of Social Inclusion for Fondo Nacional de Vivienda Popular (FODAVIPO), Salvador Antonio Sanchez, to learn about the status of deeds for 175 property owners in this community…
Cholera has already killed more than 10 people in Mombin Crochu. As the OPODNE organizing committee completes planning for the sorghum project being developed in collaboration with the World Bank, they organized an education event to help the community learn…
The Women’s Cooperative in Nyange is building a new home for Epiphany, who is living with her two children in another family's home. Epiphany's husband disappeared during the 1994 genocide and her children are 22 and 26. This is the third…
COFOA youth leaders continue their work to involve young people in solving the problems that affect them most directly - violence and lack of employment. Miriam Cicilia has been hired as a new youth organizer. She will focus her work…
Government officials are saying how impressed they are with OPODNE’s ability to organize people and achieve its goals. “'This is the first time since I have been the mayor that an organization which is implementing a project in the community…
Last year, OPODNE was invited to build an organization in Mont Organise. Thirty-five leaders decided to start a pepper cooperative as their first project to improve their economic conditions and to make better use of their land. Pooling their own…
