Forgotten Displacement

There are many displacement situations that are overlooked and forgotten. These crises affect people that have lives and stories like everyone else.

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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.
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
Psychosocial Support 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
Psychosocial Support

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Climate change and forced displacement in Eastern Africa June 28, 2022
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IGNATIAN YEAR

This Ignatian Year, JRS invites everyone to go out in the world and help the most vulnerable, including our refugee sisters and brothers. Learn more.

Ignatian Year: Being close to refugees, journeying together
Christina Zetlmeisl, JRS Uganda Country Director stands between Patrick Muhimpundu, graduate from our Advanced Computer Networking course at Makerere University who together with Simeon Chubaka, also graduate from Makerere, have started their own company Sota Spot in providing internet service in Kampala town.
Ignatian Year: Donating One’s Time and Skills to Serve Refugees
Angela always wanted to help refugees so, as soon as she retired, she started donating her time and skillls to the Jesuit Refugee Service.