JRS special needs students participate in an event in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. (Fredrik Lerneryd/Jesuit Refugee Service)

2019 Annual Report

Your generous support allowed JRS to serve 811,884 people in 56 countries.

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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

JRS UPDATES





Chad: refugee student excels at the national BAC exam despite the pandemic September 18, 2020
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JRS announces the appointment of Br Michael Schöpf SJ as Deputy International Director September 15, 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
Sr. Inés Oleaga Castellet ACI
Sr Ines served with JRS in the Democratic Republic of Congo for over three years.