AJS - What We Do

What We Do

This video is a good introduction to the kind of work AJS does, and the kind of brave Honduran justice workers we support.

The Association for a More Just Society (AJS) funds and oversees a variety of projects carried out in Honduras. We also seek to help North American Christians follow God's call to do justice by providing advocacy opportunities, prayer and study guides, and opportunities to financially support our work in Honduras.

Our efforts in Honduras focus on making the system (legal, political, economic, etc.) work they way it should to do justice for the poor. We support the following projects in Honduras:

Land Rights
Helping the poor legalize land they have lived on for many years. More...
Peace & Justice / Rescate
Investigative, legal, and psychological aid for poor victims of sexual violence, gang violence, and other violent crimes. More...
Labor Rights
Educating and providing legal aid for impoverished workers whose most basic labor rights are abused, and advocating for changes in government and business policies oriented towards improving working conditions. More...
Gideon Centers
Centers located in poor communities offering legal aid and psychological counseling for just a symbolic fee. More...
Youth Empowerment
Helping youths at risk of getting involved with gangs and drugs get involved in healthy activities and in improving their neighborhoods.
Revistazo.com
Exposing misuse of government funds, and other human rights topics, through research, investigation, and online publication. More...
Transformemos Honduras
"Let's Transform Honduras": An ecumenical Christian movement working to uncover and combat corruption and empower Honduran citizens in order to improve health, education, employment, crime, and corruption in Honduras. More...

We also have been intimately involved in the fight to do justice in response to the 2006 assassination of Labor Rights project lawyer Dionisio Díaz García.

In AJS's early years (late '90s and early 2000's) we worked on a number of important individual cases; you can read more about these by visiting our early cases archive.