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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Feast of Our Lady of the Way May 24, 2025
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JRS at the 2025 European Humanitarian Forum: Protecting access to education in emergency settings May 21, 2025
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A young Sudanese photographer captures stories of peace through his lens May 16, 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
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