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AFSC - Latin America Overview

A Unifying Vision...

AFSC has had programs in Latin America and the Caribbean for more than sixty years. Reflecting the core values of the Religious Society of Friends and drawing on AFSC's history of engagement in the region, the guiding vision of our programs is of a hemisphere of nations, cultures, and peoples, characterized by:

• basic rights for all people - civil, political, economic, cultural, and spiritual;
• equitable access to means of livelihood, with adequate shelter, food, clothing, education, and health care within a framework of sustainable economic development;
• effective participation in the structures of governance and decision-making;
• mechanisms for nonviolent and just resolution of conflict.

AFSC works regionally through an informal hemispheric alliance of programs, sharing what is learned in local projects to the international networks and forums, and back again to the local level.

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