JLC Blog

During the Strong political crisis in the country The organization seeks to empower its members on issues based on principles of equality and tolerance. They developed proposals and projects for the protection of human rights in matters of intra-family violence, equitable gender participation in the country's democratic system. the nomination of candidates for new members on December 28th; selection and presentation of the membership winners, then we proceeded without delay to carry out brigades, Legal clinics and workshops with the new members in the communities, so that they could come into contact with the JLC work methodology, create awareness of the values that we promote in our team.

Investigative efforts were made, personal and professional contacts were shared and more people with similar interests to ours decided to be involved, we planned and carried out Medical-Dental brigades, since social projection is of the utmost importance for the organization. Alternately to that, we started the Project to consolidate community organizations such as Associations of the Water Board among the Neighbours of Lencas Communities such as: Manazapa. Rio Grande. The Zapote. Chiligatoro, in the Department of Intibucá, In this project we were awarded with an award consisting in a scholarship granted to the Organizations President at the Central University of Europe in Hungary for a Master in Human Rights.

As a team of young people in full university academic training, we identified unmet needs in our society, especially in those sectors in vulnerable situations, in addition to this, we discovered other interests that united us, such as the approach and the protection of indigenous groups, Protection of Human Rights and Environment, thus defining the bases of the values that today govern rules our organization; Working committees were created thus, beginning the operation of JLC.

We consolidated the ties between the organization and the communities and strengthened them because the vision and our commitment were built under the premise of human development and quality of life.