A group in Chicago is making sure that people who often get overlooked, such as individuals with disabilities, are seen and heard when it comes to issues related to health, education and welfare.
From helping women to start businesses in Panama to amplifying the voices of unhoused people in California, partners of the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People are making an impact worth celebrating.
From youth empowerment programs to leadership and family support initiatives, Ciudad Nueva is working hard to enact long-term change in the Rio Grande neighborhood of downtown El Paso, Texas.
From opposing potentially harmful ordinances to distributing a street newspaper, the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee (SHOC) keeps issues that affect its constituents in the forefront so that living conditions can be improved.
Creative Arts Spirit of Excellence (CASOE), one of the organizations to be featured March 13 as part of SDOP Sunday, provides arts programming (theatre, dance, music, and media arts) that helps youth and young adults from ages 2-21 connect and succeed artistically.
For nearly 37 years, the Interchurch Center for Theological and Social Studies (El Centro Intereclesial de Estudios Teológicos y Sociales or CIEETS) has worked to provide transformative theological education and implement community development programs in rural areas of Nicaragua. This work is serving some of the poorest communities in the second-poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Warriors on Wheels of Metropolitan Detroit decided to start a grocery delivery service to help vulnerable people stay safe. The delivery service for people who are disabled or who are older adults is just one of the ways that Warriors on Wheels (WOW) has assisted people in Michigan with the help of the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People and other supporters.
LOUISVILLE — The Age Friendly Central Brooklyn Inc. project (AFCBI) in Brooklyn, New York, has been awarded a grant by the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People. It’s one of several projects SDOP will celebrate on March 13 as part of SDOP Sunday.
Afghan refugees in Prince William County, Virginia, had two major needs: job opportunities and Halal food. There was experience in the community with farming and cattle-raising in the northern Virginia county’s Afghan community. Some refugees had pooled their resources to purchase cattle and secure land.
