Market at an IDPs camp in Masisi, North Kivu, DRC. (Sergi Camara / Entreculturas)

Uprooted in their own country

Advancing prevention, protection, and solutions for internally displaced people.

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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

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

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.

Taban Patrick Consantino SJ
Taban Patrick Consantino SJ poses in front of St Peter's Square in the Vatican. A former JRS refugee student, Taban is now pursuing his vocation to become a Jesuit priest.
Alain Tenta
Alain and Toussaint work to support youth in their community.

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.

 

Religious Congregations

Jesuit Networks

Foundations

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