“African nations are responsible for an estimated 4% of greenhouse gas emissions, but are increasingly on the frontlines of the most devastating climate impacts, including lethal droughts and floods”...
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)...
Today is International Women’s Day, a day where we reflect on the actions and roles of the various women in our lives. On this day we stand in solidarity...
Posted on March 2, 2022 by Yanira Romero - News
MAJIS, South Sudan. Back in 2014, IJI funded the Multi-educational and Agricultural Jesuit Institute of South Sudan (MAJIS). In partnership with the Jesuits of East Africa, IJI sought to...
Posted on November 30, 2021 by Yanira Romero - News
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...
Posted on March 16, 2021 by Yanira Romero - News
Tim Flynn, Irish Jesuits International’s Roving Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor has lived and worked in East Africa since 1999. Over the years he has seen first-hand and heard stories...
Posted on March 23, 2020 by IJI Admin - News
This precarious situation and the long history of war and conflict inspired the Society of Jesus in Eastern Africa in 2010 to open a new project to empower South...
Posted on November 28, 2019 by IJI Admin - News
Members of the Xavier Network (XN) met in Portugal from 4th to 6th of October for a three-day workshop on Supporting XN Partners in Child Safeguarding. The workshop...
Posted on August 29, 2017 by IJI Admin - News
MAJIS Jesuit Farm in Akol Jal, South Sudan, provides the local population with training in sustainable agriculture and agroforestry So much of environmental justice work is oriented towards the...
Posted on August 18, 2015 by IJI Admin - News
People who face danger and adversity in order to help others are recognised every year on United Nations’ World Humanitarian Day, 19th August. For those following the Jesuit path...
Posted on April 1, 2015 by IJI Admin - News
The phone call offering a position with the Jesuits of Eastern Africa Province could not have come at a better time. I had been discussing my desire for working...
Posted on February 17, 2015 by IJI Admin - News
. Mary Apet has lived close to the land all her life. She and her family have depended heavily on farming to feed themselves ever since she can remember....