Education

The General Assembly is the highest governing body of the Federation of Fe y Alegria Movement. It comprises 22 member countries, the General Coordination, and the Presidents of the Conferences of Jesuit Provincials of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. To enrich the Movement's sustainability, the General Assembly provided input and recommendations to the executive team.

As part of the Federative Leadership Training Plan, the "Advocacy and Defense of the Right to Education from Fe y Alegría" seminar took place.

Intending to strengthen the processes of quality and educational innovation in a coordinated and networked way and to deepen educational innovation from the principles of popular education.

On 18 October 2023, Fe y Alegría in Ecuador held the opening event to mark 60 years of service to education. More than 700 people from different parts of the country gathered to commemorate the important date.

In this newsletter we hear from our partners in Africa and Asia about the ways in which people they work with are denied the most basic right of education and why they have made education a priority for their work.

Since August 2022, collaborators of the Association Fe y Alegría Paraguay have been participating in Ignatian Spirituality formation workshops.

There is only one assumption: learning to read and write is never too late.

CJI will host its third Youth for Others (Y4O) Advocacy Symposium for youth from across Canada, aimed at raising awareness about girls’ education and pushing Canada to meet its commitment to support quality education at home and abroad as outlined in the 2030 Agenda.

From 17th to 19th May 2023, the Bakhita Partnership for Education (BPE) will convene an Indaba in Lusaka, Zambia dubbed “Keep-the-Girls in School” to consider the state of girls’ education in Africa in the wake of the unprecedented school closures caused by COVID-19.

Education is not a privilege, but a fundamental human right. This means that states have an obligation to protect, respect, and fulfill the right to education for all its citizens, without any discrimination.