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Bussy: A New Environment in Haiti By Jude Martinez Claircidor, Global Communities Haiti Communications Consultant Remembering the Haiti Earthquake Five years on since the devastating Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010, Global Communities is telling the stories of some of our Haitian friends who are working hard to improve their lives and livelihoods in spite…

Photo Essay: A Safe and Dignified Burial at Disco Hill By Natalie Sarles, Global Communities After months of preparation and anticipation, the safe burial site at Disco Hill opened on December 24 for the first burials. All told, ten burials happened throughout the course of the day with five Christian and five Muslim burials taking…

With President Johnson Sirleaf’s Visit to Global Communities’ Safe Burial Site in Montserrado Country, Liberia, Safe Burials Can Now Begin By Natalie Sarles, Global Communities Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is greeted at the Disco Hill Burial Site On Tuesday, December 23, the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, visited the safe burial site at…

Islands of Hope Ebola-Free Communities in the Hardest Hit Areas of Liberia 284 Ebola-Free Communities At the height of the Ebola crisis, there were 284 communities in some of Liberia’s hardest-hit counties with a shockingly low Ebola statistic: zero. Differentiating these communities from those in the rest of the country was the presence of USAID and Global Communities’ Improved…

Can SMEs survive climate change? Eva Marie Arts and Crafts versus Typhoon Yolanda   In this report produced by the Asian Institute of Management, the authors look at the devastating impact of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) had on micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines. For this case study, they traced the cirstumances of Eva Marie Arts…

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Working with BHP Billiton to Build Resilient Communities in Colombia This story originally appeared on www.bhpbilliton.com. A US$28.6 million, five-year investment by BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities is changing the lives of vulnerable populations in Colombia.  The ANDA program (a Spanish word meaning ‘moving forward’) is implemented by Global Communities and began in early 2013. Now,…

William Stacy Rhodes Named to Global Communities Board of Trustees Photo by Vernon Doucette “We are extremely pleased to welcome Mr. Rhodes to the Board of Global Communities,” said Robert A. Mosbacher, Jr., Chairman of the Global Communities Board of Trustees. “His expansive experience in international development, with USAID, Peace Corps and the Millennium Challenge…

How Recycling Programs Fuel the Economy in Developing Countries (video) Global Communities’ Brian English, Director of Program Innovation, discusses on TakePart Live how our Trash to Treasure program in India is creating legitimate jobs for marginalized workers through recycling. More than 400 tons of waste is recycled in the city of Bangalore by informal waste collectors each day.…

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Did They Die From Ebola?  WHO helps train burial teams in Liberia to collect samples from dead bodies to determine cause of death. This article was originally published by the World Health Organization.  Dead bodies can be very contagious when it comes to Ebola, but that doesn’t mean that every deceased person has died due…

By David Weiss, President and CEO, Global Communities This story originally appeared in the Huffington Post. A victim of trafficking, now residing back in Honduras, who received assistance from Global Communities. In 2007, with no money to support her children and wanting to escape the violence of Honduras, Diana traveled to Mexico as an undocumented immigrant…

Salah’s story is one of perseverance and dedication. Salah began his career as a fruit tree farmer 34 years ago when he started working on a farm in Israel. For 25 years, he diligently worked to become an expert at growing orange, lemon and guava trees. However, he lost his job in 2005 when the…

Global Communities Testifies at House Subcommittee Hearing on Ebola On November 19, 2014, the U.S. House of  Representative’s Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations held a hearing on Ebola entitled “Fighting Ebola: A Ground-Level View.”  The current crisis has been the largest and most widespread outbreak of Ebola in history,…