Jesuit Social Service Thailand
| Abbreviation | JESS |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Wide-ranging assistance |
| Affiliations | Jesuit, Catholic |
| Website | JESS. |
Jesuit Social Service Thailand (JESS) was founded by the Society of Jesus to curtail the sexual exploitation of children. It has since expanded its efforts into a plethora of areas, mainly in support of the rural poor.
Projects
Most of the projects have a short to medium range objective. These projects include:
- Continuing its fight against sexual exploitation, chiefly of girls, through various programs including scholarships; producing videos to oppose sexual exploitation (like The Cry of My Appeal), in Spanish, English, Japanese, and Thai.
- Networking with other organizations, like Asian House Himeji, Japan, and the faculty of the medical school at Mahidol University, Bangkok.
- Collect from urban people for redistribution to the village poor in Thailand and Cambodia, things like cloths, typewriters, computers, and books.
- With help from university students and professors, translate and publish books for children and youth, mainly from Spanish into Thai.
- Produce a Thai version of the cartoon movie Flowers Without Frontiers, on sharing values. Produce music cassettes in the Pakeno language and Hmong language.
- Participate in conferences; help in volunteer placement.
- Sponsor programs in the rural and hills area in defense of women's and children's rights.
- Spread information on drugs and AIDS/HIV. Also furnish start-up money for operations like weaving and mushroom growing for HIV+ affected groups, and provide milk for children of affected mothers. Give hundreds of scholarships each year to AIDS orphans and rural children.
- Run activities for youth: music, sports, agricultural education.
- Support with money and logistics Farmers Economic Development Organization for the raising of pigs, in Sisophon and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- Furnish supplies for rural schools: water tanks, books, computers, bicycles,... pairing them with two sister schools in Hyogo prefecture, Japan. Furnishing college scholarships for 12 students, who became role models for the others.
- A free, dress-making school for hill-tribe girls in Chiangmai, to assist in their employment.[1] Three have become teachers in their diocese in Myanmar.
- Support for some political refugees from Cambodia.
- Helped in the Poipet resettlement area to found schools which are now supported by Khmer officials and UNICEF.
- Assist Xavier Hall Students Center with scholarships, school supplies, and work camps.
- Various other training programs, in literacy, agriculture, fish ponds, poultry, piggery.[2]
References
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