SJES Global Coordination on CoVid19 Responses

Since mid-march the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat has been holding bi-weekly extraordinary meetings with the six Conference delegates, the four GIAN leaders, along with the Xavier Network (XN) emergency group to share and listen to one another about the CoVid19 crisis situation in various countries, in the Conferences and networks.

This meetings are the wider level of coordination of the jesuit social apostolate worldwide, and the question is always how to take advantage of our global dimension in order to facilitate and accompany the local responses to the evolving health crisis. 

Using the expertise of the Xavier Network emergency group, the SJES has agreed on the elaboration of a Global mapping to obtain some basic information on difficulties encountered, actions taken and plans made by social centres / institutions and networks. This survey includes other Jesuit international works such as Fe y Alegría and JRS. 

The hope is that this will provide us with some basic information for collective discernment to establish global coordination, joint strategic framework and action both now – in the emergency response – and later during the recovery phase. Right now the Mapping is still trying to reach out to all the social works under the six-conferences and the global networks.

The Secretariat has also created a new section, Covid-19, within their Website:
https://www.sjesjesuits.global/en/index.php/covid-19/ in order to strengthen our global communication strategies, in order to share news and reflections, global concerns and best practices within the Society of Jesus at this time of the Pandemic.