Jesuit Alumni and Fe y Alegría for an Education for all people.

Taking advantage of the Latin American Jesuit Alumni Congress being held in Antigua, Guatemala from June 7-9, 2023, the International Federation of Fe y Alegría has signed a collaboration agreement with the World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae (WUJA) and its Latin American Union (UASIALAC).

About a hundred representatives of the various alumni associations of Latin America and the Caribbean met in Guatemala to reflect on and project the horizons of regional work as Jesuit Alumni. The theme of the congress says it all: “from Ignatian vision to Ignatian action”. The meeting dealt with current issues such as migration, technology, food sovereignty and the different ways in which – as an international alumni network and from our Ignatian values – it is possible to carry out common actions in favor of justice and the most vulnerable populations.

In this context of search and discernment of ways of collaboration around the Jesuit mission in the international arena, a collaboration framework has been signed as a declaration of intent of how the Jesuit Alumni want to project and concretize support collaborations with Fe y Alegría, the largest educational network for the vulnerable that the Society of Jesus has in the world.

The president of the world alumni association, Paco Guarner, together with the newly appointed President of UASIALAC, Gabriel Calderón signed the historic agreement together with the International Coordinator of Fe y Alegría, Fr. Daniel Villanueva, sj.

Fe y Alegría has been working with alumni associations and federations in different parts of the world for many years. Perhaps the best known campaign has been “WUJA for Haiti” in 2015 or “With you in the Mission” active in recent years in some countries. In this case, the novelty lies in the signing of a global collaboration framework that aims to work through an ad-hoc commission on a roadmap with proposals for institutional relations, projects and volunteering that can subsequently be implemented between the associations and Fe y Alegrías at the national level.

In this way, both WUJA and UASIALAC want to begin this concrete collaboration for the promotion of quality education at the borders as a pilot project, which will later allow replicating the agreement with other regional alumni organizations in the world beyond Latin America.

More information about WUJA at https://wuja.org/, and about UASIALAC at http://www.uasialac.org/ and about Fe y Alegría at https://www.feyalegria.org/

More information about the XVIII UASIALAC Congress at  https://eventlink5.com/xviii-congreso-uasialac/