News and Stories
JRS is happy to announce that the Global Education Initiative, an international campaign to raise USD 35 million to open the doors of our education programmes to 100,000 new refugees by 2020, has surpassed its goal.
JRS Lebanon is delighted to announce the opening of its 8th education project, the Nicolas Kluiters centre in Jbeil.
In Cameroon, refugees hope to transform their communities with their skills and entrepreneurial spirit.
Read about the education that JRS provides to 253,496 refugees around the world, and all the other ways we show our love for refugees, in our Annual Report.
Refugees in Colombia share stories of how they have helped build a path to self-reliance through livelihood training and support from JRS.
Ngisti Zeleke has dedicated a portion of her life’s work to helping forcibly displaced women. She currently serves as a hygiene teacher and instructs others how to make soft, reusable, easy to clean, cotton sanitary pads.
JRS has implemented a new monitoring and evaluation technique which focuses on the outcomes and impact of our services through stories of change. At a recent workshop in Lebanon, Omar, a Syrian refugee, reflected on the impact JRS’s services had on his life.
On the feast of Our Lady of the Way, Father General renews the commitment of JRS for the poor and the excluded.
The Jesuit Refugee Service is happy to announce the release of our new logo today as we seek to respond in even more effective ways to the unprecedented scale of the global refugee situation.
