Since its beginning in 1980, JRS has always encouraged its team members to be close to the forciblydisplaced people they serve. This element of our work is so valuable that JRS has enshrined it as one of thethree core elements of its mission: to accompany, serve and advocate.

It would be no exaggeration to describe accompaniment as the driving force of all that we do: it makes us who we are and it is what we are best known for, not least among the refugees themselves.