Education is a powerful tool to break the fateful cycle of poverty, inequality and exclusion. We are committed to quality education for all
Our Work
Impact
Motivated our Ignatian values, we support Jesuit works and initiatives that are responding to the challenges faced by communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Our Work
Motivated our Ignatian values, we support Jesuits works and initiatives that are responding to the challenges faced by communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Global Solidarity, Local Action
We collaborate with local Jesuit organizations by providing financial support and project resources to help them expand their capacity to address the challenges their communities are facing.
With support from generous individuals and organizations in the United States, we are responding to the Jesuit’s call “to go anywhere across the geographical and cultural frontiers where there is need of working with Christ”.
Our Projects
To Educate Is to Include: Promoting Inclusive Education in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
Children and youth with disabilities still face steep barriers to learning in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Our regional project with Fe y Alegría strengthens inclusive education and employability so every student can learn, grow, and fully participate in society.
Expanding Emotional Wellbeing & Psychological Services of the Loyola Centers in Cuba
As Cuba faces one of its most severe economic and social crises in decades, the Loyola Centers are expanding their psychological services to help individuals and families cope and become protagonists in their own communities.
Empowering Salvadoran Youth: Job Training, Life Planning, and Dignified Livelihoods
Fe y Alegría is empowering Salvadoran youth to increase their employability and access dignified livelihoods through technical training, life planning, personal development, and labor intermediation.
Goats, Livelihoods, and Access to Education in Haiti
Foi et Joie (Fe y Alegría, in French) is improving local livelihoods through training in goat rearing, livestock distribution, and the development of monitoring tools, all to help keep students in school.
International Solidarity
Our Projects
We partner with Jesuit organizations throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia to contribute to the responses to today's most pressing challenges.
Project Partners
American Jesuits International
We believe that people understand their context best, so we work with Jesuit organizations who are already immersed in local communities. From schools to migrant centers, parishes to health clinics, the Jesuits have been responding to the needs of communities in need for nearly 500 years.
Your support allows us to amplify their capacity to respond to the challenges that their communities face.
Our Jesuit Network Partners
Education
Priority Areas of Work
The Jesuits have been working alongside poor and marginalized communities for nearly 500 years. Central to this tradition is an invitation to discern where we are called to engage in works of justice while recognizing the limitations of our capacities.
Our areas of work reflect the priorities of American Jesuits International and the particular expertise of our partners.
Stories of Impact
Stefany – Venezuela
From Puerto Ordaz to Rio Olympic Games, Stefany's story highlights the impact of quality and inclusive education.
Johana – Paraguay
In the Bañado Norte neighborhood, the Escuela Caacupemí de Fe y Alegría is a source of hope for students like Johana and Iván.
Ernesto – Cuba
Entrepreneurial workshops help community members like Ernesto start new small businesses amidst economic challenges.
Samantha – Malawi
Counseling services at the Loyola Jesuit Secondary School in Malawi are giving students like Samantha a safe space to feel listened to and accompanied.
Leocadia – Cuba
Through the SIEMBRA and COMPARTE agricultural network, the Loyola Centers in Cuba are giving small farmers like Leocadia new opportunities for economic stability.
Mariela – Venezuela
Investing in new sewing machines gives students at the San Javier del Valle vocational school the “right tool for the job” and the opportunity to gain hands-on experience.
Jorge – Argentina
From poetry to soccer, nothing is out of reach for Jorge. Inclusive education programs at Fe y Alegría are opening doors despite his visual impairment.
Suzanne – United States
“Sometimes when you see it in front of your own eyes, it takes on a different approach and you feel it in your heart." Witnessing the work of Fe y Alegría first hand had a real impact on Suzanne Krudys.
Cristina – Mexico
Yomol A’tel – “Juntos trabajamos. Juntos caminamos. Juntos soñamos.” Together we work, together we walk and together we dream.
Fr. Danny – Cuba
Reflecting on the work of the Loyola Centers in Cuba, Fr. Danny explains how they “find a green branch in the desert and share it with others.”
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