Hope Lives

Hope is a virtue and perspective, a grace that allows us to live today believing in a future neither clear nor certain.

Fr Thomas H. Smolich SJ, JRS International Director
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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

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

Other Organisations

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South Africa: The impact of health care services on those in exile January 13, 2020
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Myanmar: Love and learning in JRS classrooms December 23, 2019
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UK: Finding their place in homes and hearts in London December 2, 2019
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