This year we have shared stories of grassroots leaders working for change across the world that began with an ordinary person deciding to stand up and get involved. When people decide to join an effort to change their community they…
Next month grassroots leaders from Nyarubuye, Rwanda will celebrate the opening of a new medical clinic that will serve 20,000 people who currently lack access to primary health care. This is the third large-scale clinic our partners in Rwanda have…
In April as we were all trying to figure out how to adapt to COVID we checked in with Florcie Tyrell, who leads Faith in Action International’s Haiti affiliate. She let us know how at-risk Northeast Haiti was to the…
We are grassroots and faith organizations, with the support of faith leaders from Central America, Mexico and the United States, who believe in the fundamental dignity of each person, are conscious of the injustices committed against indigenous peoples and the…
More than 325 faith-based and civic groups and leaders, including twenty Catholic and Episcopal Bishops from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S., are calling on President-elect Biden to fundamentally change U.S. policy toward Central America to address the…
The water crisis in El Salvador is dire. Four in ten people in rural areas lack drinking water. Many more families use highly contaminated water. Water service in urban areas is also very deficient. In San Salvador, many poorer communities…
"When we learned of deaths from COVID in the Northeast, OPODNE leaders decided to tak action even if government would not assume its proper roles to protect people." - Doctor Louis Cloney, OPODNE leader This year, in the face of government collapse,…
“I am amazed at the change I am seeing in my community. Twenty-five years ago, thousands died in the genocide. Now we are united in building this clinic. - Charlotte, PICO Rwanda leader in Nyarubuye This year, Charlote and thousands of…
."We have been fighting for many years for legal deeds to our property. Thanks to organizing, our families now have real titles to their homes.” - Yessenia Escobar, COFOA leader in La Galilea Yessenia and COFOA leaders led the year…
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