The Association for a Dignified Life (Asociación por una Vida Digna, AVD) supports various programmes. Its youth violence prevention programme, Youth Against Violence / Guatemala (Jóvenes Contra la Violencia / Guatemala, JCV), impacts peri-urban communities. Its local community development programme, Living Communities (Comunidades Vivas, CoVi), impacts rural communities in the northeast and northwest of Guatemala. AVD is a non-religious civil association, non-profit, private, non-partisan entity that drives services, programmes, projects and actions to facilitate opportunities to give dignity to lives in Guatemala.