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Education JRS Asia Pacific has considered education to be a form of protection for refugees since Fr Pierre Ceyrac started an education program for Kmer refugees in 1980. The focus on education continues as JRS AP supports education programs in four refugee sites along the Thai/Burma border. In Mae Hong Son, JRS works with the Karenni Education Department to provide training for teachers. JRS also provides adult education in the camps to provide skills for those who wish to be resettled. View Campaign >>> |
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Detention JRS offers legal, health, and psycho/social support to those detained, and has offered pastoral care as well. JRS is now involved in release-return, offering to assist those who wish to leave detention and return to their home countries. In Australia, JRS assisted in policy-making decisions about alternatives to detention for asylum seekers. View Campaign >>> |
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Internally displaced persons Internally displaced persons are persons who have been forced to flee or to leave their homes in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalised violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognised State border. View Campaign >>> |
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Ban landmines and cluster munitions JRS has been campaigning against landmines since 1990 and was one of the founding organizations of the Thailand Campaign to Band Landmines and a member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. In 1997 this campaign won the Nobel Peace Prize and Sister Denise Coghlan with other JRS advocates to ban landmines accepted the award. View Campaign >>> |
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Urban refugees Because JRS seeks to work with those “on the fringes of humanity,” JRS Asia Pacific has taken into account the needs of refugees living both in the camps, and those in urban areas. JRS Asia Pacific works in the urban areas of Bangkok and Mae Sot providing psycho-social services. View Campaign >>> |
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JRS Strategic Framework 2012-2015 View Campaign >>> |
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Online retreat Confronted by the conflict, slaughter, and seemingly endless anguish in so many other places in our world, we wonder how God can allow such things to happen. The Old Testament describes how the people of Israel suffered war, violence, famine, persecution, and exile, and how they tried to find the presence of the loving God of the covenant in all those harsh realities. View Campaign >>> |
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Support our work If you wish to donate to JRS Asia Pacific contact our regional director. Visiting address: Jesuit Refugee Service Asia-Pacific43 Soi Rachwithi 12,Victory Monument, Phayathai,Bangkok 10400, Thailand Mailing address: Mailing: PO Box 49, Sanampao Post Office,10406 Thailand For immediate contact with JRS AP regional director: Bernard Hyacinth Arputhasamy Tel: +66-2-2784182, 6409590 Fax: +66-2-2713632 Email: apdirector@jrs.or.th View Campaign >>> |
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JRS Asia Pacific marks 30 years Staff, past and present, volunteers and refugees reflect on our 30 years serving with and on behalf of refugees and displaced people. View Campaign >>> |
