In 2024, Lamin Amadu Adama volunteered to help build a multi-faith group in his village of Fian, in northern Ghana. Muslims, Christians, and followers of traditional religion joined together, along with youth, women, workers, and people with disabilities. They listened…
“We feed the country. We must have a voice.” That was the message farmers delivered at OPODHA’s General Assembly in August, where 400 grassroots leaders pressed the Haitian government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to build smallholder farmers’ priorities…
"Alone, we don't move anything; we are not listened to. But when there are enough of us, there is strength and confidence." – COFOA Leader Zoila Esperanza Franco For more than 20 years, 70 families in El Trébol 1, El…
"The worst cowardice is to stay silent!"- COFOA leader, Ruth Hernández For a long time, families from the subdivision of La Paz 2 had to travel to the river to wash their clothes. Some women did it by cart and…
Lamin Amadu Adama is a young man who volunteered to help build a new multi-faith organization in his rural community of Fian, in Northern Ghana near the border with Burkina Faso. The Fian Multi-Faith Alliance brings together Muslims, Christians and…
Kalbeo is a rural community in Ghana's Upper East Region, an area long starved of public investment. In 2024, Muslim and Christian leaders in Kalbeo began working with Multi-Faith in Action Ghana to improve life in their community. Mboi Wahab,…
“We longed for this bridge. I used to wait here every day, worried that children might drown. Now people on both sides can move freely, especially during the rainy season.” — Nzisabira Etienne, PICO Rwanda leader On Rwanda’s National Harvest…
On Saturday, August 29, more than 400 grassroots leaders from 74 communities, along with local mayors, public officials, and religious leaders, gathered for OPODHA’s Seventh General Assembly in Trou-du-Nord, Haiti. The main focus was OPODHA's We Plant Today So We…
OPODHA’s campaign, We Plant Today So We Can Feed Ourselves Tomorrow, has reached a crossroads. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) finally agreed, under pressure, to meet with OPODHA and its partners to discuss their Smallholder Farmer Platform, but the bank is refusing…
For the past 18 years, Communities of Faith Organizing for Action (COFOA) has operated as a service center of the Catholic Diocese of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador. Now the Government of El Salvador has warned the Diocese to end its relationship with COFOA…
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