Author: Yanira Romero

No Mother Should Need to Choose Between Food and Clothing

For most people in war-torn Syria, the biggest danger is no longer bombs and bullets, it is poverty. The gap between income and the cost of basic necessities is...

JCED Combats Climate Change Effects in Malawi

Since Covid-19 restrictions came into place in eary 2020, the nature of my role has fundamentally changed. Instead of site visits to different countries to see and report on...

“Mary Has Become Very Dear To Me’

A long term donor of IJI has shared with us how the contrast between her life and the life of a woman in South Sudan has inspired her to...

COP26 – Voices of the Voiceless

The recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was criticised for the relative lack of representatives from the countries which are most affected by climate change, yet have done the...

Syria Winter Clothes Christmas Appeal

In Syria this winter, children like this little girl are at risk of hypothermia because they do not have warm clothes. For their parents, this threat to their lives...

JCED – Evaluating it’s effectiveness in women’s empowerment

Our valued partner, the Jesuit Centre for Ecology and Development (JCED), has just completed their in-depth Effectiveness Review today, conducted by ‘Out of the Box’, commissioned by our donor,...

Annual Mass for Deceased Jesuits Missionaries

Irish Jesuits International celebrated a wonderful Mass at the chapel in Gonzaga College on Sunday 7 November. Fr John Guiney SJ as the Celebrant warmly greeted the family and...

Leave A Lasting Legacy

A gift in your Will could have an impact that will last for generations. “A legacy gift means that your love lives on in the lives of the people...

Maembo – The One Who Sings

Padraig Swan, Director of Faith and Service Programmes in Belvedere College, reflects on the life of Frank Wafer SJ, who worked with the Tonga people in Zambia to preserve...

The Work of Many Hands

Mikono Refugee Craft Shop has been badly affected by the lack of tourism in Kenya. The shop sells high quality craft items to support people from a refugee background....

I Am Because We Are

To be asked to write on your jubilee is both shocking and humbling. Shocking in realising how fast the years have passed. I am becoming an old man. Humbling...

Accompanying Young Adults in Zambia/Malawi

Peter Carroll SJ has spent his life in Zambia and Malawi leading novices, fellow Jesuits and laypeople in their spiritual formation. After serving Mass for some years at the...