Across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Eastern Europe, grassroots leaders are organizing to win clean water, land rights, sustainable agriculture, affordable housing, quality health care, and good schools.
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More than 9,000 people across 350 communities in 14 countries are organizing to transform their lives, communities, and countries, in some of the most challenging places in the world.
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RWANDA: Community Organizes for Clean Water and Bridge
Residents of Mushikili, a rural settlement in the Kirehe District in Eastern Rwanda, began organizing their community more than a…
COFOA Leaders Welcome Potential Breakthrough on Land Titles for 61,333 Families
Zacatecoluca, El Salvador — Salvadoran Housing Minister Michelle Sol announced that the government has regularized the land titles of 61,333…
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El Salvador: Mothers lead fight against mining
“As an Evangelical Christian, I am against mining because mining is death—it destroys the environment that God created. As Christians,…
Rwanda: Grassroots leaders win support to expands medical clinic in Nyarubuye
"Nobody else will build our future. We are the ones to take primary responsibility to build this clinic that will…
Honduras: COFOA leaders secure commitment for regional hospital in Francisco Morazan Department
While sixty COFOA leaders from fifteen villages in the rural northern region of Francisco Morazan Department waited in front of…
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