Breaking down barriers
to girls' education

JRS is committed to ensuring that forcibly displaced girls and young women can stay in school.

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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.

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“Bringing an end to the emerging disaster”: interview with the JRS International Director May 6, 2025
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Two refugee families make their way by building their own small businesses in Ethiopia May 1, 2025
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The future of children and youth is at risk as funding cuts force education in emergencies contexts to be deprioritized April 25, 2025
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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
MHPSS 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
MHPSS