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Among many other things, there I have learned the value of the collective: the certainty that in the work we do in the social sector, it will always be better to work in the plural than in the singular.

Although I was born and raised in Haiti, I was not fully aware of the dire realities of my own people until I left my country in November 1993 for Panama, where I lived for two years as a novice.

I write this piece on the tenth anniversary of my ordination. Such milestones punctuate our lives. They help us to pause and look back over the paths we’ve trodden. I entered the Jesuit novitiate when I was 31 years old and so brought with me a fair amount of lived experience.

I am from Chile, and in recent times I have been overjoyed to discover in a number of places the existence of a non-traditional export: the figure of Father Hurtado, Saint Alberto Hurtado.

In July 1988 I was ordained a priest in Andahuaylillas, one of the 7 rural indigenous (Quechua) parishes entrusted to the Society of Jesus in the province of Quispicanchi, Cusco.

Galo Reinaldo Bogarín Alen, 52, an architect by profession, is the current director of the Centre of Paraguayan Studies Antonio Guasch (CEPAG) in Paraguay.

I am a Spanish Jesuit, 82 years of age, the last 22 of which I have spent in the Peruvian rainforest. I write fromthe parish of Chiriaco, in the province of Bagua in the Amazonas region, where I was sent inthe year 2009.

The Integral Sport Program –PEI(ProgramaEsporteIntegral) isone ofthe social projects of theCitizenship and Social ActionJesuit Network.Itisaprogram locatedatUniversidade do ValedoRiodosSinos–UNISINOS,a JesuitUniversityinsouthofBrazil.

For the past decade, the US has experienced a crisis about border security and immigration policy – with a particular question about what to do with the 11 million immigrants who live and work in the shadows of the U.S.

Father José Ignacio Arrieta is presently living in the province infirmary of the Jesuits of Venezuela. Now 81 years old, he recalls for us the process by which the social sector took shape in Venezuela around the work of Centro Gumilla: