Last Wednesday, grassroots leaders from Communities of Faith Organizing for Action (COFOA) in Honduras unloaded hundreds of meters of plastic pipe that they will help install to bring clean, drinkable water to 245 homes in the small village of Guadalupe,…
Sixty-six grassroots leaders from Communities of Faith Organizing for Action (COFOA) in Las Brisas del Paraíso, El Salvador, met with Gilberto Mejia, an engineer from the national electricity supplier, to learn how their homes could be connected to the grid…
Maria Tania Rodriguez joined a panel of grassroots leaders and organizers from Communities of Faith Organizing for Action (COFOA) at a press conference on Tuesday, October 1, to share their stories and announce their campaign for the constitutional right to…
“All government power comes from the people. We demand that our government follow the constitution.” – COFOA letter to the National Legislative Assembly On September 23, Communities of Faith Organizing for Action (COFOA) delivered a letter signed by 1,656 grassroots…
“It was never heard of that a little person would go to the office of the Minister of Health and speak. Even for me, it seemed impossible.” – Pastor John Rutsindintwarane This is the seminal story of organizing in Rwanda…
Four hundred ten leaders from sixty-four local community organizations in the North and Northeast Departments gathered on August 23 in their General Assembly to unify their work under the name OPODHA, elect new officers, and adopt a platform for action…
FAITH in Ghana Alliance held a “Train the Trainers” retreat in Techiman, Ghana to prepare thirty lay people and clergy to train and coach local multi-faith teams. The Alliance currently supports multi-faith organizing efforts in 29 communities in ten of…
Even as Haiti teeters on the edge of disaster, funders are beginning to recognize that their approach must shift from top down, externally designed programs to development designed and operated by local communities. On June 12, Inter America Foundation invited…
Vanessa Acosta turned her lights came on for the first time on June 7. “This changed my life completely,” she said. “Now my kids can do their homework, I can charge my phone, and I store food so my family…
Rwandan small farmers are increasingly seeing their crops lost to drought, hillside garden soil washed away by unseasonably heavy rains, and roofs blown off by strong winds. Now communities in the Kirehe District are joining together to take practical steps…
