With an investment of $3,000, OPODNE leaders will establish a restaurant that caters to the hundreds of people who travel weekly to and from Cap Haitien and the Dominican Republic. In anticipation, some of these leaders are attending training in…
Ms. Yanira Marklin James has expressed her distress at being forced to wait for hours to get her young son with a serious heart condition across the Rio Roldan. Now she is celebrating with Pr. Cortes and Bishop Alvarado, Anglican…
With training provided by Pr. John, leaders in Rusomo have completed more than 165 one-to-one conversations which affirmed the need and vision for a health clinic. This young, motivated leadership group wants to be involved in every aspect of constructing…
In June, Pr. John met the people in Rusumo and heard stories about their need for a health clinic. This month they have already begun construction! For decades, refugees travelled through Rusumo to and from Tanzania. There has been no…
Rural roads, sometimes impassable during the rainy season, are now being repaired due to public pressure by the farmers trained and organized by COFOA at the invitation of the El Carmen’s Anglican Church in El Salvador. Negotiations with the mayor's…
PICO is making a difference in rural Northeast Haiti, training leaders who have started viable economic development projects - peanut, chicken and fishing co-ops. We invite you to join the delegation and meet leaders from OPODNE, Haiti’s PICO Project established by…
Because Specioza exercised her power representing her community, a new Disease Prevention Center is being constructed in Mumeya. At a Kirehe District health meeting, Specioza questioned officials who were planning on putting the center in a location that was not…
Sixty leaders from villages of the Lower Lempa River valley met to advance their struggle for the construction of the bridge over Rio Roldan. Many of these leaders are veterans of the war in El Salvador. These residents of El…
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez addressed 300 PICO leaders from the United States to kick off a “Year of Encounter: Confronting the Economy of Exclusion”. Exclusion is a reality for many in the United States, but for many, many more in the…
COFOA/PICO joined 132 international organizations that sent a letter to El Salvador’s legislature expressing support for a proposal to enshrine the human rights to food and water in the country’s Constitution. The letter was delivered at a press conference as…
