"INEA was a very conventional school, but at one point, we noticed we were at a "dead end," teaching the same thing everyone else was teaching. Twenty years ago, we realised we had to turn things around and get into thinking, learning, and practising organic farming.

"We don't want to take sides, we simply want to enlighten people through texts and enable them to start talking one day soon"

This reality takes a lot of energy from each of us. Much of our time is spent addressing problems that do not exist in other parts of the world.

On Wednesday, April 10, the European Parliament voted on the European Pact on Asylum and Migration. JRS Europe directors jointly opposed the pact and urged European institutions to reject it: "We cannot support a system that will allow the systematic detention of thousands of people, including children, at the EU external borders."

Despite challenges posed by the current conflict in Southern Lebanon, Joseph Nassar SJ reports that the Ain Ebel Centre, in collaboration with the Order of Malta and the local Municipality, remains faithful to its mission to provide healthcare, humanitarian efforts and agricultural initiatives. Its mobile dispensary serves 30 villages with essential medical services. Comprehensive training programmes promote human development and resilience.

They reviewed the status of current emergencies to which the Xavier Network is responding, including those in Syria, Ukraine, Haiti, and Nepal. Much has been accomplished at the level of coordination in programming emergency and disaster response and developing standard policies such as safeguarding policies. Yet much remains to be done. They shared a commitment to cooperation and service.