Author: Yanira Romero

Bike for Lent

This Lent, you can support teachers who must travel long distances by foot to teach in classrooms ranging from schools, grass huts or simply in the shade of trees....

Syria Earthquake: One year on from devastation.

This week marks the 1-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake which struck Syria and Turkey. The people of Syria have suffered so much already, and the earthquake had left...

Our partners in PCCP are hiring!

Programme Administrator Promotion of a Consistent Culture of Protection – Society of Jesus Role Description About the Society of Jesus: The Society of Jesus, also known as ‘the Jesuits’...

We’re Hiring

Role Title: Head of Portfolio Organisation: Irish Jesuits International (IJI), CHY 19577, RCN 20076979 Location: 20 Upper Gardiner St, Dublin 1, Ireland (with international travel) Type of employment: 4...

IJI Gift catalogue launches

More than just a Pig!   Your gift results in us actually buying that item for someone very vulnerable in one of the 12 developing countries we work in. We’re...

Serving those furthest behind in South Sudan

As we get closer to Christmas, places like South Sudan lie heavy on my heart. As the youngest country in the world, getting its independence 12 years ago, it’s...

Memories that stay with you forever

My first connection with Jesuit missionaries goes back to my time in India over 40 years ago. At the beginning of a two-year period teaching in Kolkata, I was...

“My craft means the world to me”

Meet Pascazie Uwimana a refugee mother of three girls and five grandchildren from Rwanda who has lived in Nairobi, Kenya since 1997. I am a tailor who specializes in...
South Sudan Emergency Appeal

Dreaming of home: Families flee Sudan

Christmas should be a time of peace and time spent with our loved ones. Of Christmas lights and markets and feeling cosy at home. Sadly, in other parts of...

Rebuilding Hope: JRS Syria’s Earthquake Response

Six months ago, a 7.8 degree magnitude earthquake struck Syria, affecting tens of thousands in Homs, Al-Kafroun, Damascus and Aleppo. “The response of the people of Ireland to the...

Rumbek – a bright future ahead

Visiting Akol Jal on the outskirts of Rumbek, South Sudan was very moving. As Headteacher James Majang showed us around the Multi-educational and Agricultural Jesuit Institute in South Sudan...

Thank you for the gift of water!

The East African region is faced with an urgent need to address the effects of climate change as extreme weather brings long periods of drought and flash flooding that...