We are passionate about sharing our experiences to help prevent violence. This year, our “Peace & Justice” investigators and psychologists have hosted workshops with more than 300 people from over 45 churches and faith-based organizations on how to recognize and report cases of child sexual abuse. After one workshop, a participant commented,

ASJ also signed an agreement with other civil society organizations, including UNESCO, Compassion International, and Save the Children’s chapters in Honduras to collaborate on prevention activities and monitoring the justice system’s treatment of cases involving children.

ASJ’s pursuit of justice as the pandemic continues to impact Honduras looks like monitoring vaccine distribution and recommending transparent hiring processes of doctors. And it also looks like addressing the way the country’s move to online classes denied access to education to 1.3 million of Honduras’s 2.9 million children.

In response, ASJ has presented a proposal for safe, part-time, in-person classes, which includes teacher vaccinations, focus on remedial learning, infrastructure repair, and prioritization of the most excluded communities. With our and others’ widespread advocacy, the Ministry of Education adopted a strategy that benefits 18,000 students, with more to come.