Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) has launched its Fall Campaign, Solidarity in a COVID-19 world, to support our Jesuit partners who accompany poor and marginalized communities and to foster just relations between the Global North and South.​
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Our campaign will highlight four projects:

Access to quality education
Moran Memorial School - Nepal

Moran Memorial School serves children from a neighbouring tea estate and those who live in surrounding villages – children on the margins of society. Life for these children can be challenging. They often lack basic necessities: housing, sanitation, clothing, food and healthcare. Thanks to the education they receive, young people are starting to break out of the cycle of poverty, isolation and dependency, receiving the knowledge, skills and confidence that encourage them to look for other means of employment.

Education for forcibly displaced people.
Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) South Sudan

The Education Program of JRS South Sudan operates in six schools in the city of Yambio and Maban county.  The project provides education, as well as meals and other essential items in a safe environment, to 1300 children suffering from the effects of war and forcible displacement. They who have lost everything – a home, their possession, often their family, and their childhood, find hope in a school community.

Rebuilding lives, reconstructing homes
Jesuits of Haiti

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Haiti last August 14, the latest in a series of calamities to hit the country in recent years. Thousands have died, many more injured and close to 30,000 families rendered homeless. Our local partners, the Jesuits of Haiti, Foi et Joie and Service Jésuite aux Migrants, implement strategies focused on the reconstruction of homes for the homeless, and helping people rebuild their lives. They support families and communities in Sud and Grand'Anse, the two regions most affected by the earthquake and recent tropical storm Grace.

Defence of human rights
Radio Progreso-ERIC (Reflection, Investigation and Communications Team) - Honduras

Radio Progreso-ERIC defends the human rights of people who are persecuted and are victims of widespread poverty, inequality and corruption in Honduras.  It promotes economic, social and political alternatives which benefit the marginalized communities they accompany. They strive for social change which benefit those who are most excluded.

We invite you to join us for our webinar, Solidarity in a COVID-19 world, on November 9. It features Fr Melo from Honduras who will talk about human rights; Anitalia Pijachi from the Pan-Amazon Region who will share her experience on integral ecology; and Noluthando Honono from South Africa who will focus on migrants and refugees from an African perspective. We also invite our young supporters and friends to participate in our Youth Advocacy Symposium on October 23-24.​
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Our campaign will culminate on November 30, Giving Tuesday, with Solidarity: A celebration, an online concert marking the start of  Advent and our preparations for Christmas.​
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We look forward to seeing you at our events. Thank you for all your support.