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International JRS-USA Programs

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In 2007, JRS/USA provided funding in the amount of $900,000 for the following JRS international projects:

Asia Pacific
Indonesia
Project
Earthquake Response in Yogyakarta
Goal
to provide transitional shelter, advocacy, trauma healing and economic assistance to earthquake survivors, especially women, children, elderly and the disabled

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Europe
Ukraine
Project
Refugee Center
Goal

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

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Eastern Africa
Sudan
Project

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

Goal

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

Sudan
Project

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

Goal

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


Sudan
Project

Darfur Emergency Education

Goal

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


Kenya
Project

Parish Outreach Program – funded by Raskob Foundation

Goal

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

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Grands Lacs
Burundi
Project

Assistance to Secondary School Returnees

Goal

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


Democratic Republic of Congo
Project

IDP Medical Dispensaries – funded by J. Homer Butler Foundation

Goal

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

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International Office
Rome
Project

Finance System Update and Revision

Goal

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

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Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional
Project

Formulation of Regional and Inter-Regional Advocacy Efforts

Goal

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


Panama
Project

Small Business for Refugee Women

Goal

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


Panama
Project

Humanitarian Crises in LAC Country Programs

Goal

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


Haiti
Project

Refugee Repatriation Support and  Human Trafficking Awareness

Goal

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


Dominican Republic
Project

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

Goal

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

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South Asia
Sri Lanka
Project

Tsunami Response Project

Goal

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


Nepal
Project

Higher Secondary Education of Bhutanese Refugees

Goal

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

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Southern Africa
Namibia
Project

Youth Programs at the Osire Refugee Camp Foundation

Goal

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


Namibia
Project

Osire and Calai Refugee Outreach – funded by The Loyola Foundation

Goal

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

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West Africa
Liberia
Project

Educational Scholarships for Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Students

Goal

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

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