By David Weiss, President and CEO, Global Communities This story originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Marie and Emil are typical seven-year-olds. Marie loves going to school and playing...
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Stopping Ebola in its Tracks: a Community-Led Response
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Stopping Ebola in its Tracks: a Community-Led Response
The public view of the Ebola response was dominated by images and stories of medical workers and Ebola treatment units. But there is also the less-known story of the many thousands of Liberian health...
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...
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...
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...
Using Dashboards for Decision-Making in Liberia
By Chris Thompson, M&E Manager, ALERT Project Imagine you are flying a plane. What is the first thing you want to know? You probably want to know when you will run out of fuel. To find out you look...
Electronic Food Voucher Program Assisting Vulnerable Families in the West Bank and Gaza
Last year, Global Communities worked with USAID and the World Food Programme to provide food assistance to 203,000 people in the West Bank and Gaza. Nimat and her family are one of 35,000 who...
Untouched: How 284 Liberian Communities Remained Ebola-Free
By Piet deVries, Senior Advisor, Global Communities For four years, we were busy creating access to safe sanitation for communities in Liberia. And if not for an unprecedented epidemic of what is now...
UN Security Council should seize opportunity to restart Yemen peace process
In an open letter sent today, NRC, Oxfam, Save the Children, Action Contre La Faim and seven other agencies urge the UN Security Council to press parties in the Yemen conflict to implement an...
Aid Agencies Call For an Immediate and Permanent Cease Fire as an Additional 70,000 People Flee Coalition Airstrikes in Northern Yemen
Media Contact media@savechildren.org Fairfield, Conn. (May 10, 2015) — A group of 17 aid agencies* working in Yemen today condemned the growing intensity of airstrikes in the north of Yemen on 8th...
Syria: 83% of Lights Extinguished After 4 Years of Crisis
83% (Eighty-three percent) of all the lights in Syria have gone out since the start of the conflict there, a global coalition of humanitarian and human rights organisations has revealed ahead of the...
Preventing Ebola in Liberia’s Secret Bush Schools
By Alice Urban, Global Communities Voinjama, Liberia – As Liberia continues to make gains in the fight against Ebola, Global Communities is partnering with traditional leaders to hunt down remaining...
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Al-Seeleh Healthcare Center: Enhancing Medical Services for Local Communities
The basic and medical services of Al Yarmouk Municipality in Irbid have deteriorated due to the demographic changes and continuous influx of refugees. Serving thousands of community members, the...
The Path to a Better Life in Haiti
By Jude Martinez Claircidor, Global Communities Haiti Communications Consultant After the 2010 earthquake destroyed many neighborhoods and leveled many homes, Global Communities (formerly CHF...
Global Communities Opens New Burial Site for Ebola Victims Near Monrovia
New Burial Site Eliminates the Need for Unpopular Cremations in the Capital City Silver Spring, MD – Global Communities announced today that a burial site has been opened in Margibi County, ensuring...
Sustainable Agriculture: Post-harvest Center of Grand Savanne
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...
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...