ALIANZA JOVEN HONDURAS - USAID

A grant proposal for National Prevention, Rehabilitation and Social Reinsertion
Program (PNPRRS) for the implementation of the Familias Fuertes program in
3 OC communities (benefiting 30 families) was processed, submitted to USAID
and approved.
The Asla Wapaia, Puerto Lempira, OC was inaugurated on May 16th, with the
participation of Ambassador Lisa Kubiske, the Minister of FHIS, Mr. Miguel
Edgardo Martínez and USAID Mission Director James Watson.
The buildings of Búfalo and Armenia Bonito, La Ceiba, OCs were inaugurated
on May 21st with the participation of Mission Director James Watson and the
Deputy Minister of FHIS.
The Las Mercedes, La Ceiba, OC was also inaugurated on May 21 counting
with the participation of the National President of the Red Cross, the President
of the Atlántida Red Cross and of Ms. Gabriela Leva from DG/USAID.
The inauguration of the Las Pilas OC building constructed by FHIS and relaunch
of this OC (after being closed for a while due to construction), took
place on May 22 with the participation of Deputy Mission Director Kurt Pope.
The 24 de Abril, OC in the Cofradía sector of San Pedro Sula was inaugurated
on June 20 th , with the participation of Ms. Gabriela Leva from DG/USAID.
AJH continued to provide support to 32 OCs that have been inaugurated and
the 4 OCs that are partially functioning and pending inauguration, which have
benefited over 15,620 at-risk youth and children in target communities.
AJH is developing the Estados Unidos, San Miguel, MDC OC in alliance with
World Vision and San Migel’s Mesa Intersectorial, which will be inaugurated in
August, 2013.
An agreement was signed on April 11, 2013, with NGO Samaritan´s Purse,
which is providing technical assistance to all the OC based micro-enterprises
in San Pedro Sula and Choloma and financial support to two of them.
The reinsertion of rehabilitated ex-gang members and juvenile offenders
program with the Tegucigalpa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIT) met
and surpassed the targets set in its grant, benefiting 39 youth with
microenterprises and jobs and in the process provided training to a total of 84
at risk youth.
The program with 10 interns from the Social Work School of UNAH met all
expectations, as these future professionals are contributing substantially to
AJH’s OC/community work in Tegucigalpa and La Ceiba. In addition they
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