Jesuit Volunteer Corps

Jesuit Volunteers ( JV) is an international voluntary service for adults over 18 years in a social project of the Jesuit Order. JV is a joint venture of the Jesuit missions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, led by the German Jesuit mission in Nuremberg. JV was established in early 2012 from an association of Jesuit European Volunteers ( JEV) and Jesuit Mission Volunteers ( JMV ).

The 30 annual volunteer work, for example with refugees, street children and disabled people, schools and social services in developing countries or to memorials, in vocational training or in the care of souls. The inserts are tailored depending on the training and skills of the candidates. The Jesuit Volunteers live in community and in connection to a Jesuit community or sister. She used her experience to reflect on the basis of the Christian faith, while the personal relation to God to rediscover (where the membership of a Christian church is not a requirement ). The Jesuit Volunteers are supported by an accompanying program, which is usually directed by a Jesuit or a nun and also includes seminars and retreats. A part of the support program will take place in the Center for Global Education at Caritas Pirckheimer House ( Nuremberg) instead. The cost of posting are funded by donations; further JV is weltwärts, the development volunteer service of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ( BMZ), promoted.

Jesuit European Volunteers ( JEV ) was a voluntary service of the Jesuit order for young adults, founded in 1986 by Horst Knott SJ. The inserts were limited to the period of a year ( for international use even longer) and were held at selected locations in Germany, Austria, Eastern Europe, Colombia and Mexico. The volunteers worked with people on the margins of society, such as homeless people, people with disabilities, mothers and children in difficulties, elderly and sick people or asylum seekers and lived in small, supervised by Jesuits living communities. JEV was the voluntary social year comparable and therefore anerkennbar as a community service. According to the Order participated in JEV since its founding about 1,000 young people.

Jesuit Mission Volunteers ( JMV ) was recognized voluntary service without being tied to the "Voluntary social year " and no upper age limit, but also by the BMZ. Completed vocational training was provided for the missionaries on time. With connections to branch offices of the Jesuits in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the volunteers worked in the areas of poverty reduction, refugee assistance, education, vocational training, pastoral work, health care, human rights, ecology and agriculture.

In the English -speaking world the JV operate as a Jesuit Volunteer Community (USA: Jesuit Volunteer Corps ), in the French speaking as Jeunes Volontaires Internationaux ( JVI ).