• It is a process that seeks to generate and maximize participatory community leadership
  

• It seeks synergism with other social actors (NGO’s, Institutes, Groups) for more impact in the organization of community work
  

• Sinergias con otros actores sociales (ONGS, Institutos, Grupos….) para un mayor impacto en la organización de trabajos comunitarios
  

• Participation in the construction and reconstruction of the Social Fabric
  

• It is a way to promote spaces for reflection, analysis, discussion and action around economic, social, cultural, environmental and indigenous rights

• It is a bridge between social realities with groups, people, churches or institutions interested in linking with these realities
  

• We seek an equilibrium between human development and nature
  

We begin with the fact that people, groups and organized communities are the subjects of their own process and SYJAC is a vehicle to potentialize this process. Many activities are focused on facilitating access to financing, proyects and help that respond to some specific need of these communities.

Actions

* Ecotechnological: A fundamental consideration is the encouragement of harmonious development of human beings within their environmental and cultural context. To accomplish that, we disseminate, socialize and train in eco-technological solutions:

• Rainwater capturing Systems
  
• Eco laundry centers
  
• Ecological Stoves
  
• Community Gardens
  

Many of these actions take place in the Colonia 5 de Marzo in San Cristobal de las Casas, the comunity of Corralito (Oxchuc) and in Yajalon.

* Reinforce Autonomous processes: Accompaniment and collaboration in social and autonomous processes in San Andres and communities in resistance in the Highlands.

* Training and accompaniment: Institutional and participatory leadership empowerment through facilitating meetings of evaluation, planning and monitoring of:

• Yashalum Santiago Apostol de Yajalón, Chiapas
  

• Colonia 5 de Marzo San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas

* Assisting Habitat for Humanity Mexico: From its inception we have accompanied the process of sensitizing groups and communities on the subject of housing. At present we are participating in the national organizational redesign (through the participation of two of our companions, one on the national Advisory Directorate and the other on the National Committee of Vigilance and Ethics)bajo conjunto entre autoridades autónomas, oficiales y de Bienes Comunales.

* Special Project: Educational Ecological Reserve Arca de Oca in Palenque, Chiapas: The mission is to establish organic agriculture appropriate for the region, permaculture, animal husbandry and alternative technologies to serve as a prototype for the state of Chiapas in the tropical south of Mexico.

* Comprehensive Accompaniment and Space for Youth in a Social Risk and Conflict Situation: To accompany, develop, encourage, facilitate and promote a permanent formative space for the biopsicosocial development of young adolescents in social risk or conflict that live in the suburbs of San Cristóbal de las Casas and those who belong to public educational institutes, in high school or Universities. These, in order to collaborate to the recognition, promotion and defense of the rights for young people. Among the specific goals we have established, we find the following:

• Get to know and diagnose the life circumstances of young population of four specific areas in the suburbs of San Cristobal (North area), of three educational institutes of middle level and one University Faculty (Social Sciences, UNACH)

• Generate an integral accompaniment and formative project for young population

• The implementation of the project through a permanent formative and sensitization process

• The association of the actions taken by different educational institutions, Civil Society Organizations and Government institutions