Should I feed my children or educate them?
Mony is a single mother of four living in rural Cambodia. Work is scarce and irregular and it’s hard to make ends meet. Her children, like so many others, know…
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Congratulations to the Class of 2019
Friday, June 7th will be a very special day for Loyola Jesuit Secondary School (LJSS), when 49 girls and 48 boys will be its first ever graduates! LJSS is located…
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Supporting the Mission
From May 21 to 24, the second meeting of the delegates of the Development Offices (DO) of the six Conferences of the Society of Jesus, representing the 56 Province DOs,…
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Beyond Cyclone Idai
Cyclone Idai, which hit Southern Africa in March this year, was one of the worst weather-related disasters to ever affect the Southern hemisphere. More than 900 people lost their lives…
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Investing in peace through education
Education is a tool not only for imparting knowledge, but for achieving societal and political change. This month, our colleague Noelle Fitzpatrick left Ireland for South Sudan, to take up…
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Counselling is a tool for survival
My name is Nyawuok Chuol Mut. I am a South Sudanese refugee. My day starts at 6.00am, when I begin to the normal household chores like cleaning the house and…
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“Uplift”: The name says it all
It’s the middle of the night. Your child’s temperature is spiking. Her cries are waking the neighbours. You are beside yourself. You need medicine. Having no savings, you go to…
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Madagascar: For 60 years a Jesuit publishing house has been helping Malagasy culture
Diminished and neglected during the colonial period, revaluated after the independence time, African languages are an inestimable cultural heritage. Linguists have classified more than a thousand of them, most of…
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Commitment to child safeguarding
The Xavier Network (XN) approved the ‘Commitment to Child Safeguarding’ (CCS) document, in a meeting held in Nuremberg on 7th March 2019, which has consolidated its approach to supporting partners…
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Xavier Network meets in Nuremberg
The crisis in Venezuela, international disaster relief and child protection in projects worldwide are on the agenda of the meeting in the first week of March. The Xavier Network consists…
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