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The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker based social justice organization guided by the belief that every person has inherent dignity. We believe in achieving our goals through nonviolence and peaceful conflict resolution. The AFSC does education, organizing and advocacy for peace and social justice. The New Hampshire office works especially on issues of housing and homelessness, sweatshops and international trade, the death penalty, anti-war nonviolence, conscientious objection, and militarism in schools. However, our programs are not limited to these issues.
The Youth Program of the New Hampshire office of the American Friends Service Committee was started in the fall of 2000. The Program is coordinated by a youth organizing intern. The organizer acts as a resource and support person for youth activists around the state. Past projects have included the Student Day of Action Against the Death Penalty, the Strides Toward Peace conference for high school and college students, a trip to Georgia to demonstrate against the School of the Americas, a legislative struggle against a bill that would have made it impossible to get a drivers license without being registered with the Selective Service, and a trip to Nicaragua to study the effects of free trade. Young people have also participated in annual events such as Gimme Shelter (a sleep out to raise awareness about homelessness), Homeless Memorial Day, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration.
For more information check out our
Calendar.
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