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GFSC


Global Facilitators Serving Communities (GFSC) trains, supports, mentors and collaborates with communities and individuals to enhance local resources and skills that build community resilience and self-reliance.
 
We believe that every community has tools and skills for improving resilience that often need to be identified, refined and encouraged. GFSC is committed to the development of, and reliance on, these local resources as much as possible. Worldwide, GFSC helps local facilitators create processes that increase capacity, sustainability and participation in their communities, agencies and organizations.
 
GFSC also provides opportunities for volunteers and communities to share experiences and successful methods across cultures and borders. In this way, GFSC contributes to our vision: a world of resilient and collaborative communities.

 

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LATEST NEWS

21 Dec

Some factors in resilience

A combination of factors helps build resilience.

21 Dec

Resilience… what is it?

From GFSC, as an entity that seeks to contribute to increasing the resilience and autonomy of communities in times of crisis, we want to…

12 Dec

Resilient Women from Mocoa, Colombia

Dear Friends: We invite you to watch this moving video published by Casa Amazonía, from Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia. Several of the members of the…

14 Nov

Supporting communities affected by natural disasters

From GFSC  we send our hugs of solidarity to all the people and communities that have been affected by the recent hurricanes and tropical…

LATEST BLOG POSTS


 

Creating resilience to face the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela

The authors of this story, Miriam, Susana and Holy Castillo Perdigón, GFSC volunteers, narrate the work carried out by them with teachers from the Universidad Catolica Santa Rosa, in Caracas, between May and June 2019. The purpose of the intervention was to train teachers as multipliers capable of leading the psychosocial and resilience strengthening…

The tear of the firefighters when not being able to do more…

According to María Francia Utard, GFSC volunteer and author of this testimony, one of the most shocking experiences in the psychosocial reconstruction work was when she worked with the Fire Department, in the city of Constitución, after the earthquake that struck Chile in February 2010, along with another volunteer, Enrique Rabajille. The author tells…