The GIAN - EcoJesuit Core Group met in Lusaka, Zambia from 8 to 12 July. Jesuit delegates from South Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa - Madagascar, the president of JCAM, the secretary of SJES, the current coordinator of EcoJesuit, and other collaborators from Kenya, Madagascar and Zambia were present.

We can say, with satisfaction, that we have achieved - in four intense days of work - the proposed objectives:

· Get to know first-hand the experience of KASISI Agricultural Training Center - KATC;

· Discuss the organisation and functioning of ECOJESUITS, and find ways to encourage and guide its actions in the future;

· Continue to articulate the actions required to consolidate Ecojesuit's Advocacy action, especially before the COP 29 and COP 30 meetings.

The visit to KASISI was a source of encouragement and hope to see the many efforts, results and impacts that our companions have been making in the agroecology work to help small and medium scale producers to live more dignified lives. We found a group of almost 80 people who are passionate and committed to making real that "the glory of God is that the poor live". Kasisi is not only an oasis of life in the dry savannahs of southern Africa, but an institution that has transformed lives and shaped the development of much of the country's land and agricultural policy over the past 50 years.

Secondly, we were able to better identify the demands of Ecojesuit as part of the Global Ignatian Advocacy Network (GIAN). We recognised the urgency of expanding the work of building an inter-institutional network of different provinces and conferences, focused on the study, deepening and advocacy action in three particular areas: finance and climate change (loss and damage, debts swap, just transition, etc.), field in which we have a great possibility of articulation with the GIAN of Justice in Mining. The second is Food Systems (food security, agro-ecology, water issues), and the third is Inclusion, focusing on the rights of the world's indigenous peoples. For this we constituted three working groups led by Filipe Martins (JCEP), Ngonidzashe Edward (JCAM), and Agnaldo Junior and John Kennedy (CPAL-JCSA). During the discussions, we also addressed the needs for the dynamisation of the network in terms of coordination and the composition of the Core Group, which we hope can be renewed around September. The results of the Survey on the responses to the 4th UAP being carried out by the SJES in Rome will be fundamental for this.

The Core Group also proposed that these three working groups focus their advocacy work at the global level on participation in COP 30, to be held in Belém do Pará in November 2025. To this end, we had an online meeting with a group of companions from the Jesuit province of Brazil who are leading the articulation with other religious communities, the church in general and various civil organisations. As Ecojesuit we want to be there to offer our contribution, especially in the three challenges mentioned above, and to be both among the social movements and in the spaces of formal participation (green zone and blue zones) in which we can influence or participate in the negotiations of the Conference of the Parties.

Thanks, God, for this this experience. Thanks to Pedro Walpole, leader of Ecojesuit, to Charles Chilufya and his JENA team, to Ngonidzashe Edward who was in charge of the logistics, to José Minaku President of the Africa-Madagascar Conference who accompanied us all week with his commitment to integral ecology and who guided us with his words, to all the members of Kasisi, to Fr. Provincial Leonard Chiti, as well as to Frank, to Admire and all the other Jesuits of the Lusaka communities who made us feel at home: a thousand thanks!