Fighting for water in Soyopango. “Clean water for me, for you, for everyone; every day” is the cry of COFOA leaders from the Los Santos neighborhood who met with Councilwoman Demaris Medina and other officials to find out what the…
El Salvador: COFOA leaders in Soyopango choose water as their most urgent need. More than 75 leaders from three neighborhoods gathered at St. Francis Assisi Parish to prioritize the issues they heard from hundreds of households in Soypango. One leader,…
El Salvador: COFOA presses legislators to fix property laws. After staging a protest in front of local legislative offices, 60 COFOA leaders met with Assembly Deputy, Rosa Romero to press for and extension of legislation needed to permit development companies…
El Salvador: COFOA leaders push Development Corporation ARGOZ to speed up process for legalizing property titles. One hundred fifty COFOA leaders assembled from several communities where families have experienced years of delay by ARGOZ in getting their homes registered with…
El Salvador: “United we are stronger” is the banner under which 100 COFOA leaders from cities across La Paz Department gathered to reflect on their duties and faith and civic leaders. The unifying issue for most leaders was the campaign…
El Salvador: More than 140 COFOA leaders gather to reflect on their work in 2019. Fr. Jusinto Goriano called people together with a biblical reflection on the multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mt 15: 29-39). Representatives from 13 communities…
El Salvador: 18 COFOA leaders pledge to build organizing efforts in their parishes. In the first gathering of COFOA leaders who had completed formation sessions earlier in the year designed to equip them with the skills of leader-organizers met and…
“I know that this community deals with poverty. People have great needs and violence makes people migrate to other countries. I know that through community organizing people can empower themselves, learn to negotiate with public officials, solve these problems, and…
We will be visiting with COFOA leaders in communities organized in 4 departments in El Salvador to learn about their work to bring public improvements (roads, bridges, parks), land reform and access to clean water to their communities. We will…
New COFOA organizations forming in San Salvador, La Libertad and La Paz Departments are tacking local issues and building power for a national effort. This month 150 leaders from six local communities in La Paz (linked article) came together for…
