What We Do

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to provide temporary housing with language instruction, legal aid, personal care and communal support to refugee claimants who are currently without secure housing, food or other human basics

Kajo Keji Education and Community Development - funded by the US State Department – Bureau of Population, Refugee and Migration

to develop the school, community, and government capacity necessary to ensure that quality education is provided as a basic right to school aged children, with an emphasis on girls’ education, through management and technical support to schools and school officials, teacher training, structural improvements to school facilities, the distribution of school materials, and activities encouraging the involvement of the local community in support of education

Nimule Education and Community Development - funded by the US State Department – Bureau of Population, Refugee and Migration

to continue to provide quality education to returnee and internally displaced populations in South Sudan in order to equip them  for self sufficiency and to participate in the rehabilitation, reconstruction and development of a new peaceful Sudan

Darfur Emergency Education

to continue providing education to nearly. 1,000 adults of whom 50% are women in four ‘settlements’ of Darfur and to complement the current basic education with life skills components

Parish Outreach Program – funded by Raskob Foundation

to provide approximately 200 households of new arrivals, asylum seekers and vulnerable documented and undocumented refugees with emergency material and financial assistance to meet unmet basic needs and to provide basic medical care and psychosocial support to an average of 80 new arrivals, asylum seekers and vulnerable refugees

Assistance to Secondary School Returnees

to ensure that 550+ young men and women refugee returnees continue their secondary education studies

IDP Medical Dispensaries – funded by J. Homer Butler Foundation

to build two dispensaries and to rehabilitate another two medical centers that will bring health services closer to the surrounding villages

Finance System Update and Revision

to improve the quality and quantity of the international JRS financial infrastructure in order to ensure high quality transaction recordings, reports, analysis and management of JRS resources

Formulation of Regional and Inter-Regional Advocacy Efforts

to strengthen regional capacities for coordination of the advocacy and communication work of JRS in Latin America and the Caribbean

Small Business for Refugee Women

to increase the income of migrants and refugee women in the city of Panama

Humanitarian Crises in LAC Country Programs

to offer humanitarian aid to the families who lost homes due to the fire in the barrio of Curundú in Panama City

Refugee Repatriation Support and  Human Trafficking Awareness

to help prevent forced repatriation along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border; to welcome repatriated migrants, and to reduce the number of human rights violations

Health Programs for Haitian Refugees in the DR – funded by J. Homer Butler Foundation

to offer medical assistance to refugees, making provision for medication, laboratory analysis, visits to medical specialists, chronic illness treatment, minor surgeries, and vision and dental care

Tsunami Response Project

to build permanent houses and pre-schools or tsunami affected people. construct human resource development centers, and offer educational scholarships for orphans in the north and east of Sri Lanka

Higher Secondary Education of Bhutanese Refugees

to allow Bhutanese refugee teenagers to pursue higher secondary education in local schools in Nepal and nearby India

Youth Programs at the Osire Refugee Camp Foundation

to continue the development of the refugee youth group and to provide library services to the schools and the community at Osire

Osire and Calai Refugee Outreach – funded by The Loyola Foundation

to purchase a used pick-up truck for the transport of supplies and personnel to the refugee camp at Osire and to the project in Calai

Educational Scholarships for Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Students

to help needy students continue their studies and be in a better position to contribute to Liberia’s much-needed development