Jesuit Refugee Service has long recognized that serving urban refugee populations is a major challenge.
Isolation, restrictive and inadequate government policies and resource constraints all take on increased significance in urban settings.
In March of this year, JRS staff from more than 25 countries met in Bangkok for a global consultation meeting to discuss and debate our work with urban refugees.
Learn more about Jesuit Refugee Service and Urban Refugees here: http://bit.ly/JdBQpz
Jesuit Refugee Service has long recognized that serving urban refugee populations is a major challenge.
Isolation, restrictive and inadequate government policies and resource constraints all take on increased significance in urban settings.
In March of this year, JRS staff from more than 25 countries met in Bangkok for a global consultation meeting to discuss and debate our work with urban refugees.
Learn more about Jesuit Refugee Service and Urban Refugees here: http://bit.ly/JdBQpz
Two years after an earthquake struck Haiti the community of Los Cacaos has demonstrated what happens when neighbors work together to solve a problem. Fresh, clean water is now available to 700 families thanks to the community’s commitment to build a positive foundation for long-term improvements.
Catholic nuns based across the Artibonite river in San Francisco of Banica Parish in the Dominican Republic organized the project in consultation with community leaders. Jesuit Refugee Service/USA provided $113,000 to fund the project, and members of the community supplied the labor to build roads, construct cisterns and lay miles of plastic pipe and tubing.
Read the full story here: http://bit.ly/wzccCh
Images that I made of Manhattan and the World Trade Center in March 2001. The soundtrack is a 36-second wax cylinder recording of Walt Whitman reading four lines from the poem "America."
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