Present in Haiti since the early 1990s, Jesuit Refugee Service was one of the first NGOs to react to the earthquake. Our aim is to provide psychosocial support, education, emergency assistance and capacity building training to displaced communities.
 

To tackle this social justice issue, the DV task force believes that a response from our faith-based communities is appropriate and necessary. Such a response involves developing a coalition of faith communities to work on ways to address DV.

Holy Trinity School is a Catholic, co-educational elementary school (PreK-8) that is committed to the Jesuit traditions of educational excellence, the service of faith and the promotion of justice. Our community – school, parish and families – seeks to develop students who will manifest these traditions in an awareness of self, a love of learning and a desire to serve others. We prepare our students to act with initiative and integrity and to engage the world as a place in which God can be found in all things.

As we meet and work with refugees who have confronted evil and suffering, it is important to remind them and ourselves as well to keep in touch with God, the source of all good and love. This is the only way to withstand evil.
 

Gonzaga College High School offers its rising seniors two international opportunites for direct service.

Dominican Republic:

Following junior year, a group of students spend two weeks of their summer living with families in a Dominican village, constructing sanitation facilities and experiencing a very different culture.

Guatemala:

During the summer after junior year, students spend one week working at the Mi Refugio School in the mountains of San Pedro, which is located outside Guatemala City.  Our young men assist with construction projects and health clinics while also spending time with the school children.  

The Social Justice Ministry responds in prayer and reflection, direct service, education, advocacy, and donations to the needs of the parish, to the social needs in the diverse urban diocese and community who are our neighbors, and beyond these borders to a sister parish and national and international Jesuit social services. When program priorities are being set and choices made about resource allocation, the Ministry actively advocates for preferential treatment for the poor and marginalized in our community in light of the Gospel, Catholic Social Teaching and the priorities of the Jesuit Conference.

Provides meals, fellowship and outreach every day of the week to homeless and addicted.

The poorest of the poor go to the McKenna Center each weekday to get a mail, take a shower, to get clean clothes, to ask for job and drug counseling and to experience a safe and drug-free environment. The McKenna Center provides or efficiently refers guests to any service a homeless man might need. The McKenna Center is the last daytime drop-in center for homeless men in the downtown Washington, DC area.

The Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD) was established over four decades ago to improve the quality of life for all children and youth, especially those with, or at risk for, special needs and their families. Located in the nation's capital, this exceptional center both directly serves vulnerable children and their families, as well as influences local, state, national and international programs and policy.