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Residents of JELA House, an emergency shelter for asylum seekers, enjoyed dinner at a nearby restaurant in celebration of Christmas 2019.
JELA sends a group of adult volunteers to India every other year. There they help make artifical limbs for people who lost their legs.
Another preschool has been built in rural Cambodia. A place of great opportunity for this girl!
JELA is collecting homemade cloth face masks to pass onto our partners in India and Cambodia, who are hard at work to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural lives.
Almost every summer since 2003, JELA has been sending a group of mainly teenagers to a week-long Christian-themed home repair camp in the U.S.
JELA hosts charity concerts in churches across Japan every spring.
Four young volunteers came to clean a recently-vacated room in JELA House, an emergency shelter for asylum seekers in Tokyo.

Panasonic Cambodia Posts “Solar Lantern Donation Ceremony” on social media!

JELA, with the support of Panasonic Holdings Corporation, has been working to deliver solar lanterns to areas in India and Cambodia that are without electricity. This year, JELA is pleased to announce that 540 solar lanterns will be provided to Cambodia. The 540 solar lanterns will be delivered to poor rural families in non-electrified areas…
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The Video Version of “Encountering Psalms” by Carol Sack is Now Available!

In the midst of the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), JELA felt the need for prayer and spiritual healing in this time of crisis, and together with missionary Carol Sack, director of the Lyra Precaria (Prayer Harp) training course, we have created a program called “Encountering the Psalms” in 3 parts. The video “Encounter…
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JELA, UNHCR and Wesley Foundation sign agreement on Refugee Vocational Education Program (RVEP)
Support quota expanded to 4 students!

Since 2020, JELA and the UNHCR Representation in Japan (UNHCR Japan) have jointly offered the Refugee Vocational Education Program (RVEP), a vocational school study support (scholarship) program for people living in Japan with refugee backgrounds. This year, the Wesley Foundation has newly joined RVEP, and on March 30, JELA, UNHCR Japan, and the Wesley Foundation…
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