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Are you a Migrant in or from Honduras? Tell us about your journey so we can help you return home.

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Homecoming Services

I. Diagnosing the Migratory Threat

II. Finding a Path for Migrants to Return Home
U.S.A. Hondruas
Breaking the Cycle of (Re)-Migration/Deportation

I. Diagnosis: We are distributing our branching survey to the Centers and Municipal Units for the Attention of Returned Migrants (CAMRs/UMARs) to diagnose the cause of the Migration Crisis by using branching questioning to probe for the deep rationality for migrating. With this information we will identify the class that is eligible for asylum and the system of dysfunctionality in Honduras that reproduces the violence and migration. Using the Diagnostic in-take Information for each client we will generate a path for their homecoming either through temporary asylum or reintegration into their place of origin.

II. Prognosis: We seek to prevent re-migration by reintegrating returned migrants into their places of origin. Migrant clients are interviewed for their reasons for fleeing, the personal problems they encountered, and the social sources of these problems. If they have a credible threat from political persecution, we help them apply for asylum in another country through the Embassies, instead of journeying thousands of miles only to be deported. If no credible asylum case exists, we enter them into our reintegration crisis program, where they engage in research on their place of origin to identify the problems having caused them to leave in the first place and cooperatively work on sustainable solutions to reconstruct the place that is home to their soul (Hogar de Alma). When we scale, we will open a clinic centers in Tegucigalpa & San Pedro Sula with satellites around the nation and offer a more extensive 3-month platial reconstructive program of reintegration.

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Helping 1,000 Migrants Return Home

  • Emergency Response Protocol ($40/Migrant): I. Diagnosis & II. Prognosis
  • I. Initial diagnostic consultation session to select Path (A or B): 500HNL ($20)
  • II. Follow-up prognosis consultation session to map Path (A or B): 500HNL ($20)
  • Goal: 1,000 Migrants x 1,000HNL ($40)/Migrant = 1MilHNL ($40,000)

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I. Client In-take & Path-Selection

I. Those who are found to be facing violent situations in their homes of origin due to political persecution will be assisted in an application for asylum through the U.S. Embassy of Honduras. We are working to make the Asylum process in the U.S. more open to the dire circumstances of Hondurans and more fair in its trial process.

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II.B.Reintegration

II. A. Asylum & Immigration Case Filing

II.A. Those who are found to be facing violent situations in their homes of origin due to political persecution will be assisted in an application for asylum through the U.S. Embassy of Honduras. We are working to make the Asylum process in the U.S. more open to the dire circumstances of Hondurans and more fair in its trial process.

II. B. Honduras Reintegration Program

II. B. Those who are returning to their places of origin are enrolled in our reintegration program. Migrants research the problems afflicting their home communities and help with platial reconstruction by providing solutions to improve the social conditions and ensure social protection. Migrants perform joint surveying & ethnography, social policy deliberation in affiliation groups, technical research in educational institutions, product creation in cooperative project ventures, and legal changes through opinion mobilization.

  • Reintegration Program Steps
    Our full-service 3-month reintegration program for each migrant is 2 sessions [@ 500HNL/Session] for each of the 6 micro-project service steps below, totaling 6,000HNL/Migrant. The Honduran government will pay for the program as a micro-loan.
  • 1. Environment: Diagnosis Surveying to Resesarch Problems of Place of Origin
  • 2. Health: Psychologically Interpret Personal Trauma for Self-Care Journey
  • 3. Democracy: Affiliation Groups Deliberate upon Social Issues & Propose Policies
  • 4. Education: Technical Research into Personal and Social Problems
  • 5. Economic: Build Market Solutions in Cooperative Public-Private-Projects
  • 6. Legal: Social Problems and Solutions are Incorporated into Reflexive Legal Framework

Projects

Long-term National capacity building for all aspects of Migrant Protection

Our projects in the U.S.A. & Honduras serve to create social infrastructure whereby victims of violence can either find asylum in the USA or rediscover their lost homes by rebuilding the fragmented social structures of their communities in platial reconstruction. Together with migrants, through thick descriptions and source mapping, we find the root of violence and deliberatively enact cooperative market-based solutions to enable a more natural population migratory equilibrium between countries.

1. Environmental Protection

Reforestation & Promoting Norms of Stewardship, Mapping the Environmental Problems in critical places, Enforcing legal hazard standards, and securing land rights for indigenous cmomunities.

2. Health Care

Researching the epidemic of mental illness through place-based ethnography of trauma and developing cognitive behavioral methods of secondary violence prevention.

3. Democratic Participation

Mobilizing social opinion through deliberation in affiliation groups on social problems and policies, and advocating for electoral improvements

4. Education & Science

Engaging Migrants in Place-Based social research and technical skill development for solving social problems, and developing supportive information science infrastructure

5. Economic Systems

Protecting Labor Rights & Contracts, and Incorporating Migrant returnees into economic cooperatives to build public-private projects to make market-solutions to social problems

6. Reflexive Law

Protecting Migrants by ensuring the problems they encounter causing violence are addressed by law incorporating their opinions.

The Foundation

Our history and development timeline.

  • January 2018

    A Suspect Election & The First Caravans

    Justin moved to Honduras where Fernanda & Eldan were organizing the Indignados Movement. They came up with the concept of the Migration Clinic to help asylum seekers and make a reintegration program so Hondurans don't have to migrate.

  • January 2019

    The Foundation is built.

    We were incorporated into a not-for-profit Foundation under the Honduran Commercial Code and began to offer our legal and information services.

  • September 2019

    Phase One: Pilot Program

    We are beginning our 'emergency relief' pilot program of diagnosing the source of the migration crisis and administering a reintegration program

    • Program Length: 6 Months
    • Time: September, 2019 - February, 2020
    • Migrants to Help: 100
    • Where: Tegucigalpa
    • Amount to Raise: $40,000

  • February 2021

    Phase Two: Scale Program

    Once we have completed our pilot program, testing our methods of intervention, we will be seeking to scale our operation nationally.

    • Program Length: 3 Months
    • Iterations: 3
    • Time: February, 2021 - December, 2021
    • Migrants to Help: 10,000
    • Where: Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, La Ceiba, Santa Rosa de Copan, & Tela
    • Amount to Raise: $240,000

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Our Amazing Team

Meet the Expert Board of Directors & Founders of Foundation ALMA

Fernanda Lopez Aguilar

President, Human Rights/Immigration Law

B.A. Political Science w/ IR & Humanities, Yale College

J.D., Michigan University

Justin Petrillo

Vice-President, Quantitative Political Scientist

B.A. Political Science,Yale College

M.A. Politics, New School

Eldan Cruz

Communications Director

B.A./M.A. Political Science, King's College

B.A./M.A. Film/Business Communication, NSCAD/McKenzie College

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Are you a Migrant? Please submit a Reasons for Migrating Deep Survey to register with ALMA.


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