| Eastern Africa | Return to All Regions |
| Press Contact | Regional Office |
| Phone | +254 20 3874152 |
| easternafrica@jrs.net | |
| Website | http://www.jrsea.org |
| Description | Eastern Africa is one of 10 geographic regions of the Jesuit Refugee Service, an international Catholic organisation founded by the Society of Jesus. In eastern Africa JRS is currently implementing 13 projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, reaching out to over 105,000 refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees. JRS Eastern Africa provides education, psychosocial support, pastoral care, peace-education, livelihoods services and emergency relief and is involved in human rights protection and advocacy activities on different levels. Altogether, there are over eight million refugees and internally displaced persons in the whole region, including Somalia. JRS started working in Africa in the early 1980s. One of the earliest commitments was in Ethiopia, providing food, shelter and medical aid to thousands of people displaced within their own country by war and famine. In the early 1990s the JRS Eastern Africa region was established with the regional office based in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1992 one of the biggest and longest serving JRS projects was set up in Adjumani, northern Uganda, assisting Sudanese refugees mainly through education and pastoral care. It was closed in 2008, after 75 schools were handed over to the government and most of the refugees were repatriated to Southern Sudan, now helping to rebuild their country, with the skills they gained during their exile in Adjumani. Today, JRS's biggest operations in eastern Africa are in Southern Sudan, providing support in education, peace-building and pastoral accompaniment.
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| Countries | Ethiopia Kenya South Sudan Sudan Uganda |
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