Water is life: ‘Maji ni uhai’

The Swahili saying ‘Maji ni uhai’ – ‘Water is life’ captures the absolute necessity of having continuous, safe water in eastern Africa. It can’t be taken for granted. Located...

Educating men and women for others

Take a tour to each education project the Irish Jesuit Missions is linked with. Click through on the map and read about them, look up their websites, view their...

International Women’s Day 2017: Safe Havens for women

Photo: Jesuit Refugee Service International Pope Francis reaffirms the church’s stance against all forms of abuse against women in the encyclical Amoris Laetitia: “we must…see in the women’s movement...

Endings and beginnings in the Far East

John Guiney SJ from the Irish Jesuit Missions office visited fellow Jesuits and Jesuit works in the Far East this month – China and South East Asia. Over 125...

St Ignatius College

St Ignatius College, Zambia aims to provide academic excellence and quality education of the whole person in the Jesuit tradition. It wants to educate leaders who are emotionally intelligent,...

Loyola Secondary School

South Sudan is one of the most conflicted countries on the continent of Africa. But at Loyola Secondary School (LSS) in Wau, lay teachers and Jesuits have been working...

Ocer Campion Secondary School

Ocer Campion Jesuit College fills a desperate need for secondary education in the war-ravaged area of northern Uganda, around the city of Gulu. It is a co-educational Catholic boarding...

Loyola High School

At Loyola High School in Mabibo Farasi, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, students are encouraged to aim for high academic achievement while developing their spiritual and emotional lives. The ultimate...

St Peter Claver High School

A Jesuit boarding school is located on a 500 acre campus about 15 kilometres from the centre of Dodoma, the legislative capital of the United Republic of Tanzania. Meet...

Gonzaga Primary School

At Gonzaga Primary School there is a strongly held belief that education is a 3-way process with partnership between students, teachers, and parents, each playing an equally important role....

Loyola Jesuit Secondary School

Loyola Jesuit Secondary School is very clearly a Jesuit school, guided by Jesuit pedagogy, to graduate girls and boys who will be: “women and men with and for others.”...

Kangemi Support Centre

“Upendo” is a Kiswahili word meaning “Love”. An education project which has been a wonderful success is the Upendo Vulnerable Care and Support Programme. The project aims to meet...