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Improving Lives through Vocational Training in South Sudan Beda Saturtino working on the wall of a church with a fellow trainee. “Learning skills is good. I am happy. It will be good to develop my state and country by building towers, small houses and ministries.” says Beda Saturtino from Eastern Equatoria State (EES) of South Sudan. Saturtino is one of 25 trainees enrolled in the masonry…

Colombia Responde Supports Reparations and Land Restitution to Victims of Violence As one of the main strategies to consolidate peace in the country, the Government of Colombia (GoC) has designed and implemented public policies aimed to provide reparations to victims of violence. In line with this goal, the Victims and Land Restitution Law was passed in…

Working with Communities for 60 Years For 60 years, CHF International has been working closely with communities worldwide to bring about sustainable changes that improve the lives and livelihoods of the vulnerable. Development is not something we do for people; it is something we do with them. We believe that the people who understand their…

To Our Next President: Global Leadership Begins With Foreign Aid By David WeissPresident and CEO, Global Communities This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post. With Election Day here and the race for the White House at its end, and with the recent headlines dominated by the destruction left by Hurricane Sandy, the bloody conflict in…

Jubilation as Over 600 Adults Get Literacy Certificates in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda This article originally appeared in Ubwenge. It was just euphoric – troops dancing and play performances − as Wednesday saw 614 people awarded literacy certificates in Nyaruguru district, Southern Rwanda, following a six-month writing-and-reading teaching session under the auspices of CHF (Cooperative Housing…

Helping Strengthen Local Governments in Colombia Through the Colombia Responde program, Global Communities/CHF is helping the local the municipalities of El Carmen de Bolivar, San Jacinto, San Onofre and Ovejas to implement an institutional strengthening process to increase their financial capacity. This is occurring as part of the National Consolidation Policy set down by the government…

Milestone Reached in Haiti: Over One Million Cubic Meters of Rubble Removed It’s a weekday morning under a blazing sun and Jean Francklin Cadet is pacing up and down the corridors of his house waiting to give his feedback on the debris removal undertaken in his neighborhood. Before the earthquake, Cadet lived a four-bedroom house. After…

Youth-to-youth Dialogue Sparks Hope for a Better Life in Kenya The Kiambiu informal settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya has a long history of violent conflict. Traditionally, the source of the conflict was housing ownership and these tensions were reinforced and exploited by warring gangs. However, the conflict turned tribal and political when post-election violence spread…

Adult Education Gave Me a Second Chance – Success Story from Rwanda By Jean Pierre Bucyensenge This article originally appeared in The New Times. Gerardine Nyiramabindo’s experience is a bitter-sweet story. Despite her will and devotion to study, she never got a chance to go to school at a tender age. And, unfortunately, those who were supposed to…

Kabeh Sumbo, 10,000 Women Program Graduate, Featured on Voice of America Liberian business woman, Kabeh Sumbo understands perseverance. Liberia’s economy was devastated by 14 years of civil conflict and Sumbo, returning home in 2007, found she had nothing. “When I returned from Guinea, it was very hard…everything was gone.” In order to help women entrepreneurs like…

CHF International’s Approach to Gender Global Communities works to provide women with access to resources, employment, and education to reduce inequality and to promote their full participation in their community. Research has shown that countries with greater gender equality experience more rapid economic growth, greater agricultural productivity, and improved food security. Increasing girls’ and women’s…

Montenegro Request for Proposal CHF International Montenegro requires delivery and installation of an Automatic Beeswax Foundation Sheet Machine and Reservoir for the USAID-funded Economic Growth Program in Montenegro. Download the full RFP using the links below: PDF version Word verision

International Nonprofit CHF International Unveils New Identity as Global Communities, Partners for Good President and CEO David Weiss:  “Development is not something we do for people; it is something we do with them. We believe that the people who understand their needs best are the people of the community itself.”  Silver Spring, MD – (October 15, 2012)…

CHF International is becoming Global Communities, Partners for Good Dear  Friends, The world is changing.  So are we.  This year marks the 60th anniversary of CHF International, the Cooperative Housing Foundation, a non-profit international development organization.  Since our founding in 1952, we have evolved and our current name no longer reflects who we are and…

Workforce Development: CHF International’s Approach   CHF International is an innovator and a catalyst for sustainable, positive change in low and moderate-income communities around the world. CHF has a strong track record in implementing economic development programs that create jobs and income generation oopportunities, improve the resiliency of households, link the poor to domestic and…

Women’s Empowerment Equals Poverty Reduction Asserts Liberian President This article originally appeared in the Daily Observer. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has revealed as a top priority of her administration, the empowerment of Liberian woman through skills training initiatives as a key poverty reduction strategy. She said lifting women from poverty through capacity development programs will help…

CHF International and Partners Celebrate the Green Apple Day of Service in Colombia CHF International brought of all of its partners together to celebrate the Green Apple Day of Service to improve schools and promote environmental sustainability in northern Colombia. CHF staff  in Colombia worked with teams of volunteers in partnership with the following schools…

Community Support Leads to a Successful Green Apple Week of Service in Bangalore, India By Latha K., Program Officer, CHF International – India Students gearing up to plant trees. CHF International has been working with slum communities in India since 2003. With support from the Caterpillar Foundation and in partnership with the Centre for Social Action (CSA)…