Annual Report 2011

28 March 2024|Annual Report

The year 2011 showed us an unchanged world in which people continued to suffer and to flee in search of protection. We saw new displacement due to hunger and war in Somalia, to the struggle for power in Libya and Ivory Coast, and to natural disasters like the floods in Bangkok.

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) went to new frontiers, responding to the Somalia crisis by launching a project in southeast Ethiopia. In Tunisia, a small team of Little Sisters took care of refugees’ ‘leftover’ from the Libya conflict. In Bangkok, JRS attended to urban refugees affected by the floods and bypassed by official relief efforts. And, in eastern Congo, a team held its ground and attended to people newly displaced by chronic conflict.

Discover more about JRS work in 2011 by reading our annual report.