The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation with a mission to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. JRS undertakes services at national and regional levels with the support of an international office in Rome. Founded in November 1980 as a work of the Society of Jesus, JRS was officially registered on 19 March 2000 at the Vatican State as a foundation.

In Eastern Africa Province JRS programmes are found in the following places: Addis Ababa Ethiopia: JRS Country Office; Nairobi Kenya: JRS Office in Gitanga Rd; Labone Sudan: JRS Project; Ngara Tanzania: JRS Project; Kampala Uganda: JRS Country Office, Kitgum Uganda: JRS Project,

In Eastern Africa, among the few works that JRS is engaged in are to provide assistance to refugees in refugee camps, to people displaced within their own country, to asylum seekers in cities and those held in detention. The main areas of work are in the field of Education, Advocacy, Emergency Assistance, Health and Nutrition, Income Generating Activities and Social Services.