In Southern Thailand, JRS education training centers help young refugees make up for the years of schooling they lost so they can gain entrance to schools in Thailand. 

In Southern Thailand, JRS education training centers help young refugees make up for the years of schooling they lost so they can gain entrance to schools in Thailand. 

This temporary shelter area is run by the Thailand Government on the Myanmar border for Karinne people.
In the restaurant training program, women learn about nutrition so they can take their turn working in the camp restaurant for 3 months.

Sr. Prapatsorn Srivorakun, a Ursuline nun, mentors Zin Min Thu in a JRS training center for Burmese children. After years of missing school while fleeing conflict in Myanmar, the children learn Burmese, Thai and English to catch up with the Thai school system.  

Shwun Let Kine, 9 years old and in the 3rd grade, is instructed by Regina Mary, a Burmese/Indian teacher, who has worked for JRS for two years.                            

Ten year old Aung Kyan is in the first grade in a JRS training center. The center  helps the children make up for their lost time as refugees before they enter Thailand’s school system.                    

A young Burmese student leads his class in recitation learning the English alphabet.   

Kyan Sein Htoo teaches history at class level 10 in the Karenni Refugee camp. JRS supports the schools in the camp with teacher training and curriculum design. 

Students in a class sponsored by the Jesuit Refugee Service pause from their studies to welcome a visitor with the traditional Buddhist greeting of “Namaste” — 
“the divine in me respects the divine in you.”

After school, eight year old Surana Preeya, from the nearby Shan refugee camp, helps clean her classroom. JRS built the Lak Tang school and supports 6 teachers, provides school lunches, and transportation to and from the refugee camp.

The camp, home of refugees from Myanamar, consists of  huts on
steep hillsides constructed of bamboo and thatch roofs. During the monsoon season the dirt roads and paths become treacherous.  

Refugees are required to apply for official papers and carry the documents with them at all times. After being photographed at the refugee camp, they wait for photos which will be used on their required documents.

After completing a three month JRS sponsored nutrition class in the refugee camp, Sein Thit works in the food shop, Moe Mah Kah restaurant, dishing up curried eggs.                          

JRS education among the Burmese immigrant children includes fish-farming in Southern Thailand.

JRS supports the transportation of kindergarten children to and from the Krung Jor Shan refugee camp, home to people from the Shan tribe who fled the conflict in Myanmar.

Revo Akrizal, age 10, primary grade 5, is questioned by Nurjanah, age 34, Peace Education officer on issues of disaster preparedness.

In the Aceh village of Air Pinang JRS assists teachers of the Madrasha Ibtidaiyah Negeri school in preparing them and their students for disasters.

Disaster Simulation in the village of Lawe Sawah, south of Tapaktuan, Southern Aceh, Indonesia.

In the village of Ie Merah, JRS supplied tractors so the Muslim farmers of this once rebel village could begin rice farming. The village imam, Mr. Teungku Ilyas, sprinkles rice on the tractors as
a blessing.   

Donatus Akur, JRS coordinator, assists villagers who built their new mosque which also functions as Lawe Buluh’s community center. Of the forty JRS staff members, thirty-two are Muslim.    

After independence was gained from West Timor, the city of Dili absorbed thousands of new citizens overburdening the city’s social services and infrastructure. JRS assists the poor with housing, clothing, medication and food.       

After independence was gained from West Timor, the city of Dili absorbed thousands of new citizens overburdening the city’s social services and infrastructure. JRS assists the poor with housing, clothing, medication and food. 

After independence was gained from West Timor, the city of Dili absorbed thousands of new citizens overburdening the city’s social services and infrastructure. JRS assists the poor with housing, clothing, medication and food. 

After independence was gained from West Timor, the city of Dili absorbed thousands of new citizens overburdening the city’s social services and infrastructure. JRS assists the poor with housing, clothing, medication and food. 

After Katchin refugees from Myanmar signed the papers accepting refugee status in Romania, Stefan Abu, JRS country director, shows them on a map where they are located.  

Holy Saturday services.