JRS Programmes

JRS programmes are found in over 50 countries, providing assistance to refugees in refugee camps, to people displaced within their own country, to asylum seekers in cities and those held in detention.

The main areas of work are in the field of Education, Advocacy, Emergency Assistance, Health and Nutrition, Income Generating Activities and Social Services. At the end of 2004, more than 450,000 individuals are direct beneficiaries of JRS projects.

Nearly 1,000 workers contribute to the work of JRS, the majority of whom work on a voluntary basis, including about 75 Jesuits (priests, brothers and scholastics) and 75 religious from other congregations.

These figures do not include the large number of refugees recruited to take part in the programmes as teachers, health workers and others.

Our programmes include:

• Providing funds to support the education of the refugees. This includes the setting up of schools, tuition centres, payment of school fees, hiring of teachers and purchasing of textbooks.
• Providing funds for the re-building of homes destroyed by war or natural disaster.
• Sending/purchase emergency relief supplies such as food, clothing and medicine.