Awareness raising through education

CHANGE promotes critical thinking among young people and offers encounters with people who have experienced forced migration. It encourages students to be actors of social change. Together, teachers, refugees and students, all have a role to play in creating inclusive societies.

Our Mission

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate for the rights of refugees and others who are forcibly displaced. Welcome to the website of the Europe Office.

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Our priorities

Access to protection Access to European territories needs to improve, become safer and more fair.

Access to protection

Immigration detention We visit detention centers accross Europe and provide legal, pastoral and psicological assistance.

Immigration detention

Social inclusion We accompany people from their arrival through self-suffiency.

A migrant woman receives a certificate of a Portuguese language class from JRS Portugal academy

Social inclusion

Awareness raising Refugees' voices need to be heard. We aim to create spaces and promote them so that they are heard throughout Europe.

Awareness raising

Featured projects

CHANGE

This project aims to educate young people on the positive contributions of refugees to society and to encourage them to take action within their schools and local communities.
I Get You

JRS Europe and its partners identified and promoted best practices to prevent racism and xenophobia towards forced migrants through community building.
Protection at the External Borders

This project monitored human rights violations and documented findings and policy recommendations in the report Forgotten at the Gates of Europe.