Association for a More Just Society (AJS)

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>>Amnesty Interviews Dina Meza and Carlos Hernández
Amnesty International recently interviewed Dina Meza, an AJS-supported journalist in charge of Revistazo.com, and Carlos Hernández, the president of AJS's Honduran partner organization, about hardships facing defenders of justice and human rights in Honduras.
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>>Life in Nueva Suyapa
This video, produced by a group of youth from the poor Tegucigalpa neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa sponsored by SCM / Genesis, gives an intimate look at what life is like in the poor urban communities where many AJS beneficiaries live. One of four AJS-supported Gideon Centers is located in Nueva Suyapa, and several of the youth featured in this video have participated in AJS-supported youth-empowerment and violence-prevention programs.
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>>Girl Rescued from Kidnapper
"He even bought my entire bucket of tortillas." That's how doña Julieta, a resident of an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, explains the way an AJS-supported lawyer went above and beyond the call of duty in rescuing and defending her teenage granddaughter from a kidnapper.
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>>A Land Title for Gerson
Gerson's house is built on one of the few relatively flat pieces of ground here in Tegucigalpa 's Villa Cristina neighborhood. But until recently, living there was in some ways just as precarious as living in nearby houses that keep an unsteady grip on sheer cliff faces. The reason: Gerson had no legal title to the lot his home is built on.
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>>Labor Rights for Security Guards: Tomasa
Tomasa worked for years for a private security company that made her work hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime, then refused to give her legally required severance pay when they fired her. But an AJS-supported labor rights project is helping her gain access to justice.
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>>Labor Rights for Security Guards: Betanco
Betanco also worked for years for a private security firm that treated him poorly and ran him out of his job when he helped form a workers' association. But thanks to the intervention of the AJS-supported labor rights project, Betanco's former employers agreed to pay him all the severance benefits he was legally owed.
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>>AJS: Working for Justice in Honduras
This video, produced in 2006, highlights how the lives of three Hondurans were changed by AJS-supported land rights, labor rights, and Gideon Center projects.
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The Association for a More Just Society (AJS) oversees and funds initiatives carried out by Honduran partner organization la Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa (ASJ). AJS is a US-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so all donations to AJS are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.