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…
Santiago Nonualco youth leaders continue to learn how to organize and are holding one-to-one conversations and building relationships in their church, schools, and community. Last year through the relationships they created, they gained the support of the National Center for…
In April a group of Mumeya leaders once again took action on behalf of their community, putting up the walls and completing the roof for six more rooms at the health center! Although they have won the commitment of Kirehe’s…
After several months of research meetings with public officials, this spring San Juan Tepezontes leaders got the ANDA office to provide clean water three days a week - a big success for COFOA leaders, who kept pressure on the ANDA…
COFOA expanded across El Salvador in 2010, including COFOA’s first youth organizing effort, led by COFOA staff person and experienced leader Marisol Rogel in the Santiago Apostol parish. Youth leaders held a listening campaign that reached over 400 Santiago young…
For the first time in decades, the inhabitants of San Juan Tepezontes, a community of 4,000 people, held a community reunion at the public park in front of the Saint John the Evangelist Church. Over 300 community members came together…
Thanks for your support ELCA congregations and PICO Network Federations CRCR Executive Director John Rutsindintwarane spent the summer making presentations and preaching at Lutheran Parishes and PICO affiliates to share the incredible work of Rwandan leaders. At Brooklyn Community United,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2010 Contact: John Baumann, SJ, Founding Director and Director of Special Projects: 510-655-2801 Opening of Rural Rwandan Health Clinic Highlights Innovative Development Model in Africa Congregations Rebuilding Community in Rwanda celebrates their successful grassroots…
