Access to quality education
Hospitality: bringing refugees out of obscurity
Serving vulnerable Syrians
Urban Refugees
Theology, spirituality and ethics, a basis of the JRS mission
Conflict in Congo
International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence
Brazil: JRS helps trafficked migrants from Haiti
Tabatinga, 28 August 2012 — From January to July this year, about 2,000 trafficked migrants from Haiti stranded in the Brazilian border town of Tabatinga received emergency humanitarian assistance, thanks to the solidarity of several organisations, religious congregations and Jesuit institutions both in Latin America and around the world.
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Haiti: we're in 'bizniz!'
Port-au-Prince, 4 June 2012 - In Haiti, there is a saying that a house without a woman is like a body without a soul. I believe this is true. Our project with women reveals their growing desire to stand on their own feet and to change not only their own situation but that of Haiti too, to give their country a more humane and just face.
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Haiti: water project highlights recovery
Los Cacaos, 02 February 2012 — Two years after an earthquake struck Haiti, Los Cacaos has demonstrated what happens when neighbours work together to solve a problem.
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Haiti: pre-school nutrition programme benefits the young
Washington DC, 17 October 2011 — Jesuit Refugee Service USA is funding an early childhood development programme in the community of Fond Parisien, Haiti, and pre-school nutrition is an important component of the programme. (Read an earlier story here.)
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Haiti: JRS expands early childhood education programme
Fond Parisien, 10 May 2011 — Jesuit Refugee Service is seeking to provide a head start to students in this small town near the Haitian border with the Dominican Republic. While bolstering the ability of children to succeed in future educational pursuits, the early childhood education programme also acts as a protection mechanism for these young Haitians.
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Haiti: displaced persons demand moratorium on their eviction
Port-au-Prince, 5 October 2010 – More protests break out each day in Haiti while displaced people wait for the government to take action. They are demanding the government take concrete measures to protect them from ongoing attempts by landowners trying to evict displaced persons from camps established after the 12-January earthquake.
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JRS working to improve camps, provide education in Haiti
(Washington, D.C.) April 20, 2010 — Two of the leading Jesuits involved in Haitian earthquake relief efforts visited Washington last week to meet with members of non-governmental organizations, Congressional staff and State Department personnel.
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Inclusion of Haitian voices in rebuilding effort must be a priority
Washington DC, 30 March 2010 – Jesuit Refugee Service/USA urges the international community to include Haitian voices in the planning for Haiti’s reconstruction and recovery– local voices will ensure Haiti is built back better.

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Haitian Jesuits plan for future, urge that local voices be heard
(Washington, D.C) March 2, 2010 — Jesuits here have organized a Reflection and Action Unit to help plan for the long-term rebuilding of Haiti while ensuring that the voices of the Haitian people are involved in that planning.
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JRS a leader in Haiti relief
Washington DC, 22 January 2010 – Jesuit Refugee Service has become a leader in providing emergency food and medical aid to the suffering people of Haiti. Fr. Kawas Francois, S.J., Coordinator of the Jesuit response to the disaster, says that as of Thursday morning, food aid from the wider international community has not reached the many of the people who need it most. However, Jesuit Refugee Service has been able to drive trucks of food and other supplies from the Dominican Republic. One has to wonder why countries are unable to duplicate the work accomplished by JRS. “We have decided to give a little of our food aid and medicines to certain other organizations in addition to our response centers,” Fr. Francois added. This will enable more people to be provided for.
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