Success Stories | Faith and Opportunity Initiatives

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March 20, 2020

Sri Lanka has a diverse society with ethnic communities, including the Sinhalese (75 percent), Sri Lanka Tamil (11 percent) and the Muslim community (10 percent). Several years after its 26-year war, Sri Lanka continues to be a divided country. Mistrust between communi-ties continues.  > Read More

March 20, 2020

Funded since 2007, Programa Inter-Religiosa Contra a Malaria (PIRCOM), co-chaired by The Right Rev. Dinis Sengulane, Anglican Bishop Emeritus of Libombo (President of PIRCOM), and Sheik Aminudine Mohamad, President of the Islamic Council (Vice-President), and in coordination with the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, is a unique platform for coordination among Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Baha’i religious leaders at national and local levels, to equip and mobilize community leaders with information to change attitudes and behaviors about malaria prevention and treatment. > Read More

March 20, 2020

Samaritan’s Purse (SP) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery program, also known as “USAIDizi”, efficiently and rapidly responds to the needs of conflict-affected populations in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by improving access to food, enhancing household resilience, and promoting economic recovery. SP DRC met emergency needs, while simultaneously promoting rapid recovery of livelihoods and markets. > Read More

March 20, 2020

The Integrated Birth Spacing Project was a two and a half year project funded by USAID/PRH Flexible Fund, and implemented by World Vision. The project demonstrated how Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) messages and Family Planning (FP) services can be integrated into maternal and child health projects at the community level, often with the support of faith leaders. The project was focused around three integrated strategies: advocacy, commu-nity mobilization; and resource mobilization. > Read More

March 20, 2020

The “Tangiraneza/Start Well” project aimed to enhance the capacity of Ministry of Health (MOH) staff and Community Health Workers (CHWs) to implement impactful maternal, newborn, and child health interventions at the community level. > Read More

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