Cover of JRS's 2019 annual report: special needs students participate in an event in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.

Being with refugees

In 2019, we served 811,884 people in 56 countries in the world. See what we have achieved together.

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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.

Our Priorities

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Reconciliation In a spirit of welcome and hospitality, we work to promote right relationships and build social cohesion.
Sœur Hala salue une femme qui participe régulièrement aux activités du JRS à Alep, en Syrie (Service Jésuite des Réfugiés)
Reconciliation
Education The delivery of quality education that fosters agency among refugees, focused through the Global Education Initiative.
Children going to school at the JRS FVDL Centre in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon.
Education
Livelihoods Innovative livelihoods programmes focused on self-reliance and sustainability.
A refugee woman attends a livelihoods training run by JRS in Ethiopia.
Livelihoods
Advocacy Effective advocacy for the rights of refugees.
Advocacy

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World Teacher Day: recognising the contributions of teachers amid global crisis October 5, 2020
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Lebanon: Stepping up to support families affected by Beirut explosion September 28, 2020
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JRS completes the Global Education Initiative and renews its commitment to refugee education August 26, 2020
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OUR PARTNERS

JRS relies on a broad range of partners — communities, local and international NGOs, corporations, foundations, institutional donors and public funders — to shape and support our programmes.

 

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40 YEARS OF ACCOMPANIMENT

To honour the 40th Anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service, we tell the stories of the people we have walked with over the years and whose lives are a testimony of our service.

Meet our partners and companions.

Pau Vidal SJ
Fr Pau Vidal with and at that time Education Coordinator, Fr Alvar Sanchez SJ, at the Gulawein school, in Maban, South Sudan. Around 200 children attend this school supported by JRS, which is building new classrooms, providing daily food and paying teachers. (Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran)
Sr. Inés Oleaga Castellet ACI
Sr Ines served with JRS in the Democratic Republic of Congo for over three years.