Community Radio Urgent Appeal

When Tropical Storm Agatha hit Guatemala the government was overwhelmed. It couldn’t reach remote villages or get information out to them, and thousands of people were at risk. But where the government failed, tiny, local, community radio stations are stepping in.

Global Response organizes campaigns that magnify Indigenous Peoples voices. Through letter-writing campaigns and complementary strategies, we urge governments and corporations to uphold the rights of Indigenous Peoples and enforce laws and international treaties to protect the environment.

Inundation

Isabel Becker is a tiny but tough Ngöbe grandmother from the village of Charco la Pava in the Changuinola River Valley in western Panama. She’s lived there all her life in a beautiful wooden house overlooking an idyllic tropical valley. Or she did, until the bulldozers knocked her house down.