“Migrants are our brothers and sisters in search of a better life, far away from poverty, hunger, exploitation and the unjust distribution of the planet’s resources which are meant to be equitably shared by all. Don’t we all want a better, more decent and prosperous life to share with our loved ones?” ~Pope Francis
What We Do
VISION
To Accompany and toil towards a world in which each lives with identity, dignity, and respect.
MISSION
To help migrant workers to access to basic rights and legal knowledge. To gain the freedom to protect themselves and to exercise their rights as migrant workers
OBJECTIVES
To help the migrant children To form and empower migrant women To make migrant youth knowledgeable, creative To motivate and empower the homeless migrants
ABOUT US
Jesuit Migrants Service (JMS) reaches out to migrant workers in five districts of Tamil Nadu. They are Chennai, Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur, Ranipet, and Chengalpattu. Migration is a global phenomenon and Tamil Nadu is not an exemption from this global phenomenon since 2014. In India, Tamil Nadu is one of the major host states to receive interstate migrant workers in construction, textile, manufacturing, hospitality, brick kilns, and street vending. The great contribution of the migrant workers to the development of the host states and the original states in the form of remittances is conveniently taken for granted by the respective State Governments. Having understood the reality of this kind the JMS approaches them with a sense of justice and equity. JMS reaches migrant children with threefold aims: to have access to education, to minimize child labor, and to concentrate on the holistic development of the children
