Posted on March 24, 2023 by Joe Munnelly - Emergencies
This Saturday join millions of people across the globe and switch off your lights in support of nature and the planet. In Ireland, Earth Hour is at 20.30 (8.30pm)...
World Water Day is UN global initiative and this year’s theme is “Accelerating change” focused on protecting and conserving the Earth’s freshwater. Groundwater is a vital resource that provides almost half...
Last week we were welcomed into a rural farming community that JCED assists. Before JCED’s involvement they weren’t knowledgeable on the practice of sustainable agriculture. For instance, they had...
The past week I had the opportunity to see JCED’s projects in the flesh. This required taking a trip north of the capital to a town called Kasungu. Up...
Posted on March 23, 2020 by IJI Admin - News
The Jesuit Centre for Ecology and Development (JCED) in Malawi is distributing locally made fuel-efficient ceramic cooking stoves, known as chitetezo mbaula, among poor households in the Kasungu District...
Posted on March 23, 2020 by IJI Admin - News
“We want our dreams to be so big they scare us”, says Adrian Makasa Chikwamo SJ, a Zambian Jesuit who is Director of the Jesuit Centre of Ecology and...
Posted on February 4, 2020 by IJI Admin -
The Jesuit Centre for Ecology and Development (JCED) runs a programme in Lilongwe and Kasungu which provides farming communities in rural villages with the skills to protect their livelihoods...
Posted on May 2, 2019 by IJI Admin - News
I usually set off from home at 7.30 am on my journey to the office. It’s a half-hour walk which is very pleasant as almost invariably the sun...
Posted on November 29, 2018 by IJI Admin - News
Female farmers in Kasungu learn techniques such as manure making, afforestation, soil cover, and maize variety selection through JCED’s Farmers Field Schools. Jesuit Adrian Makasa’s work with the Jesuit...
Posted on December 12, 2017 by IJI Admin - News
Chitetezo mbaula is a low-carbon-emitting energy-efficient stove produced and distributed by JCED. Pope Francis invites us “to acknowledge our contribution, smaller or greater, to the disfigurement and destruction of...
Posted on September 1, 2016 by IJI Admin - News
Photo credit: Martin McNamara, ‘Sky and Lake’ in Fingal, County Dublin. Welcome to the ‘Season of Creation’. Beginning on September 1st, the Season will run until the feast...