Telma Teresa Barahona coordinates the COFOA ministry in her church, San Juan Evangelista, San Juan Telezontes. Telma says that her organizing has given her a new way to put her faith in action and work for the common good of…
Uwimana Annociata is a PICO Rwanda leader from Nyange village, western Rwanda. After several months of training, she is excited to see how one-to-one conversations and the priorities that surface can result in an environment in which Nyange residents themselves…
Published Feb. 9, 2012 in The Daily Progress By Bob Gibson It has been nearly 18 years since Rwanda’s latest genocide resulted in more than half a million people being killed, in an East African nation the size of Maryland. Much…
Please join us in this unprecedented opportunity to learn about PICO’s work in El Salvador and Guatemala in July 2012! You will meet PICO Central American leaders and hear about their progress getting access to health care, increased safety and…
COFOA Guatemala held their first candidates’ night on August 13th. Despite a heavy rain storm, 800 people turned out for the forum, along with all four mayoral candidates. COFOA leaders, with minimal staff support, organized the event themselves, and it…
COFOA Guatemala leaders in San Antonio Aguas Calientes have begun a long-term environmental awareness and clean-up campaign. They want to improve the health and safety of their city and attract more tourists from near-by tourist mecca Antigua, to boost the…
For the last two years, health care issues have continually surfaced in all COFOA congregations. Leaders have identified similar problems: irregular clinic hours, lack of medicine, lack of access to basic preventative care, lack of minor surgery care, lack of…
San Pedro Nonualco, home to about 7,000 people, is tackling the issue of poverty. As COFOA leaders grow in experience through campaigns that have gotten new alcohol regulations and health resources, they are talking about how poverty impacts their families…
This fall Mumeya leaders celebrated completion of six more rooms of their first health center, building the bricks themselves, completing the roof and plastering the walls. Now they have room for a laboratory, a pharmacy and in-patient capacity! When the…
Escalating crime and violence is an issue throughout El Salvador. A recent UN study noted that El Salvador and Honduras have the highest homicide rates in the world. COFOA listening campaigns have surfaced violence as a key problem in building…
