Communities protect
their own wellbeing

Refugee communities themselves are the foremost experts in their own wellbeing. Even in the absence of extensive funding, they can continue supporting one another.

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Our Mission

JRS seeks to accompany, serve, and advocate the cause of refugees and other forcibly displaced people, that they may heal, learn and determine their own future.

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Peace in Diversity: Celebrating the Festival of Encounter 2025 October 14, 2025
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Jubilee of Migrants: Together to build bridges of hope October 6, 2025
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A guide to compassionate, inclusive and accessible language for MHPSS in humanitarian settings October 8, 2025
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Our Priorities

Reconciliation In a spirit of welcome and hospitality, we work to promote right relationships and build social cohesion.
Reconciliation
Education&Livelihoods Delivery of education from early childhood to adult learning and livelihoods programmes that foster agency and nurture hope.
Children going to school at the JRS FVDL Centre in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon.
Education&Livelihoods
Advocacy Effective advocacy for the rights of refugees.
Advocacy
MHPSS Layered, complementary services capable of meeting a variety of complex experiences and needs to ensure the most effective mental health and psychosocial support.
Refugees play sport in the JRS centre in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
MHPSS