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Contact
Address:
JRS Europe
Rue du Progrès (Vooruitgangstraat) 333, first floor,
B-1030 Bruxelles.
Belgium
Telephone: + 32 2 250 32 20
Fax:
+ 32 2 250 32 29
E-mail
General Information: europe(a)jrs.net
Webmaster: press.europe(a)jrs.net
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How to find us?
Our office is located on Rue du Progrès (Vooruitgangstraat),
which runs from Gare du Nord in the direction of Schaerbeek. It
is a 10 minute walk from the station and is also accessible via
Trams 4, 25, 55, 56, 94 (Get out at stop: Thomas). Our office is just across the
road from the tram stops at no. 333 Rue du
Progrès.
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JRS Europe Staff
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Fr. Jan Stuyt SJ,
Regional Director
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Jan Stuyt is a
Jesuit priest and a lawyer from The Netherlands. He trained in
civil law at the University of Leiden. He has worked for the
Catholic Church in adult formation in the Ignatiushuis and as a
parish priest in the church De Krijtberg, both in Amsterdam. His
first placement for JRS was with the Vietnamese boat people in
Malaysia and Hong Kong. He was the co-founder of JRS
Bosnia-Croatia in 1993. He used his sabbatical year
2003-04 to study Buddhism and Islam.
Since
the summer of 2004 he has coordinated the work of JRS in Europe
as regional director.
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Br. Michael
Schöpf, Assistant Regional Director
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Michael started to work with JRS Europe in
March 2005. He has an interest in migration and development and
comes with a background in philosophy and development sociology.
Michael worked for the first time with JRS in an
income-generating project in Kenya in 1993/94. He has later been
a member of the council for the JRS Europe Regional Director
while teaching international migration and development courses
in Munich.
At
JRS Europe he is responsible for the coordination of
programmes and country offices. He will also start some advocacy
work on issues related to Africa.
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Ms.
Isabelle de Sazilly, Administration
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Isabelle comes from France, and has been in
the team since November 2002. Before working with JRS-Europe,
she worked in formal and informal education and in the
administration of two French non-profit associations. She then
worked for 8 years in the field of Development, Finance and
Solidarity in Paris (Frères des Hommes and Société
d’Investissement et de Développement International); she also
worked for two and a half in Rome. From 1989 onwards, her
professional experience has always been in an international
context, giving her the opportunity of using her linguistic
abilities.
She is responsible for Administration and the general running of
the JRS-Europe office.
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Ms. Carola
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Carola Jiménez-Asenjo comes from Spain, and started work at
JRS-Europe in October 2000. Previously, she had worked in
various project management positions such as EU Project
assistant at GeoPlaneta, and Project Manager and EU funding
officer in Fundacio Solidaritat (University of Barcelona). She
has an academic background in law and political science, writing
her minor thesis on EU Immigration Policy.
At JRS, she is project officer, responsible for following up
calls for proposals at EU level, as well as coordination and
implementation of projects.
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Mr. Rik De
Gendt, Communications Advisor
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Rik has worked as a volunteer with JRS for
twenty years, especially in the field of media and
communications. As a professional journalist with several
Belgian daily newspapers and magazines he has reported on
JRS-projects in Europe (Great Britain, Italy and former
Yugoslavia), Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda,
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Liberia,
Guinée, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Zambia and Malawi)
and Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong
and Macau).
At the European office of JRS he is now advisor
to the communications department.
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Mr. Philip
Amaral, Policy and Advocacy Officer |
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Philip comes from the United States and joined JRS-Europe in
September 2007. He has a Master's degree in Social Work from
Boston College, and during his final year of study he interned
with JRS-Europe for three months. As an intern, Philip focused
on the issue of migration and development and assisted JRS with
producing new policy positions.
As a Policy and Advocacy Officer, Philip will continue working
on migration and development as well as on the issues of
destitution and detention of asylum seekers, in addition to
other strategic policy and advocacy issues concerning the
forcibly displaced.
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Mr. Michael Donohoe, Media Officer
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Michael joined the team in March 2008. He
comes from Ireland, where he studied Journalism at The
Dublin Institute of Technology. While studying he wrote for a
number of publications before joining the JRS-Europe office.
At the Jesuit Refugee Service he is responsible
for communication both between country offices and for
JRS-Europe itself in the shape of newsletters, press releases
and public awareness raising.
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Mr. Joseph Poncin, Documentation
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