St. Ignatius called his first followers “companions” and it is in the spirit of St. Ignatius that the Companions’ Programme has been set up. This programme is an exciting initiative between young people in Jesuit education in the developed and developing world.
The eighteen schools involved are united by the Jesuit ethos, “Men and women for and with others”. This characteristic calls for an attitude and readiness to cooperate, to listen and to learn from others and to share a common spiritual inheritance.
The Companions’ Programme aims to
- develop a mutually beneficial and sustainable relationship between the nine Jesuit schools in the United Kingdom and their corresponding school, or mission, in the developing world.
- promote and demonstrate Jesuit Education and deepen pupils’ understanding of justice at home and overseas – to enable pupils to take action for justice.
The components to help implement this programme are: Fundraising, Awareness, Communication and Exchange. These components have been selected to delineate a list of endless possibilities; combined they help to put a FACE to the programme and provide tangible stepping stones for the pupils of these schools to become, “Agents and promoters of change”.
To find out more about the different schools and their activities, please click on the relevant links.
Jesuit Missions