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Crecemos Gives Peace a Face

Crecemos gives peace a face everyday and becomes a safe, joyful home for kids in Oaxaca, Mexico. Empowering them to love themselves, relationships, and life! Planting seeds of hope that not only bloom to make them beautiful human beings, but inspire them to spread seeds of peace wherever life takes them.

Judaea’s story: A Haitian woman changing the narrative

Judaea is one of thousands of people suffering from the negative fallout of armed conflicts between rival gangs in Haiti. AVSI, through the Consortium with GOAL, CESVI, and BHA/USAID, activated a humanitarian emergency project to meet the multi-sectoral essential needs of affected people in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.

United Families Make Fruitful Fields: How AVSI makes refugees “protagonists” of their own development in Uganda

At AVSI we say that we want to make people “protagonists” of their own development. Here I saw a real example. These people, with all of their intersecting vulnerabilities, anxieties, scars and poverties, found a place where they could come together and be seen. This relationship, offered in a peaceful place, unlocked their learning potential. They were empowered to reconsider their preconceptions, and not to stop at reconsidering, but to actually apply their learning to their own families and relationships.

Peace in the Middle East

As AVSI, we express our sorrow for all the victims and great concern about the war that has broken out in the Middle East, where we have been working since 1993 with development cooperation projects, particularly in education, protection, health, and economic development.

AVSI-USA visits apac

In June, a delegation of AVSI conducted a site visit at the APACs in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We asked each traveler to share their impressions upon their return.

United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast visits AVSI-supported primary school in Nagounkaha

A festive atmosphere filled the air in the village of Nagounkaha in the district of Karakoro, 5 miles from the town of Korhogo. The Ambassador of the United States of America to Ivory Coast, Her Excellency Jessica Davis Ba, accompanied by a delegation, visited the village’s public elementary school on May 23, 2023. She went to see and learn about the McGovern-Dole program on school canteen operations and reading instruction.