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Helping Small Communities Gain Access to Clean Water The new small town water supply system is now providing over 3,000 Ntankoful residents with clean, safe water. Located along the Tarkwa bypass on the outskirts of the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolitan area in Ghana, the 3,000 residents of Ntankoful have grappled with the issue of inadequate water supply…

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Rwanda: Empty Orphanages, Communities Filled with Hope By David Weiss, President and CEO, Global Communities This story originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Marie (second from left) and Emil (fourth from left) have been reunited with their oldest sister Emmy (far right). Marie and Emil* are typical seven-year-olds. Marie loves going to school and playing…

Silver Spring, MD –The BBC has named Global Communities’ West Bank/Gaza Country Director Lana Abu-Hijleh as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world for 2015. Abu-Hijleh was selected for her role in development, humanitarian work and leadership in Palestine over the past 30 years. This is the third year of the BBC’s…

Quick Mitigation to Flood Damage in Al Hassa In October 2015, approximately 300 households were damaged by unprecedented amounts of rainfall and flooding in the Al Hai Al Gharbi neighborhood in Al Hassa, Tafileh. Community members faced a potential disaster. As the Al Hassa Mayor, Ibraheem Abu‐Jfain, said: “Despite our regular checks of the weather…

Global Communities’ Vice President for Communications & Public Affairs on the Importance of Community-based Development David Humphries, Vice President for Communications & Public Affairs was recently interviewed by Through the Noise, a weekly podcast, where he talked about, in his “melodic Scottish accent” the importance of Global Communities’ community-based approach to development. Using examples from Kenya, Colombia, India,…

Global Communities, Solidaridad, and PDA Partner with The MasterCard Foundation to Create “Youth Forward” Initiative in Ghana Global Communities, Solidaridad, and Participatory Development Associates (PDA) announced their partnership today with The MasterCard Foundation on an innovative employment initiative called “Youth Forward” for Ghana. The program assists economically disadvantaged young people to overcome barriers such as…

Proving “Disability is not Inability” Joseph and the water storage tank he uses to run his water vending business. Sighing, Joseph begins his story. “Countless times, I have sat deep in thought, day dreaming, until a hand taps me, reminding me of the harsh reality of being physically challenged, dejected, unemployed and almost hopeless.” Joseph…

Global Communities Team Leaders Honored at Disco Hill Safe Burial Site By Stephen Farshing, Global Communities MARGIBI COUNTY, LIBERIA – More than one year ago, during the height of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, a small group of staff from Global Communities Liberia identified a plot of land approximately 30 miles outside of Monrovia, overgrown with…

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DESIGNing a Stronger Cooperative Model The goal of Developing Economic Strengthening Interventions for Group Production (DESIGN) is to design a better cooperative development model in Uganda by working with rural smallholders to understand their motivations and expectations for joining cooperatives. The program assesses individual’s “willingness to cooperate” used as a proxy for “trust,” to understand…

A Community-Led Approach to Sanitation in Liberia Global Communities carried out a USAID-funded Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IWASH) program in three counties in Liberia from February 2010 to April 2015. IWASH implemented the internationally recognized Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach. CLTS “triggers” community disgust toward open defecation practices and subsequently raises community awareness about…

Helping Displaced Families in Colombia: Dina’s Story Maryluz and her family arrived in Cartagena after they were forcefully displaced from Uraba Antioqueño in Northern Colombia. At the time, she and her husband had three children: Cristian, Alejandra and Dina. At first, they stayed at a friend’s house, who had arrived earlier under similar circumstances and…

Social IncluCity Programme Chalks Massive Success   This article originally appeared in Modern Ghana. The Inclucity Project, being implemented by the Global Communities, an NGO, to improve service delivery and local governance for the turban poor has ended. The four-year project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and carried out in the both…

VIDEO: The Power to Dream. The Power of Unity. Ana Heidy Ambrosio, a resident of Corn Island in Nicaragua, lived  a life of isolation and marginalization until she was 15 years old. She was born deaf, and up until this time was never given the opportunity to learn Nicaraguan Sign Language and did not have…

Ngororero District Celebrates Two-year Public Private Partnership Program with the Walmart Foundation Ngororero farmers proudly display their certificates of achievement. On October 6, Ngororero District celebrated the close out of a two-year public private partnership program between the Walmart Foundation and The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), implemented by Global Communities. Launched in…

Horizontina Youth Empowered to Take Civic Action Horizontina is a small, rural town located in the northwestern corner of Brazil’s southern most state. Horizontina and neighboring communities, which were originally colonized by European immigrants, may look and feel different from some of the better-known urban centers of Brazil, but youth here face the same challenges as…

Transforming Lives in the Neighborhood of Alfred Tapis Rouge in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Alfred Tapis Rouge corridor before and after. Of all the 25 districts of Carrefour Feuilles, Alfred Tapis Rouge is among the most vulnerable. Until recently, it served as a camp for those who lost their homes in the 2010 earthquake. The area lacks…