The Eastern Africa Jesuit Province, located in the Great Lakes area in the Horn of Africa, is dynamic and youthful. Formed in 1986 and consisting of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda, 200 Jesuits in the province serve more than 240 million people in a region roughly the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River.
Despite challenges including civil conflict, poverty, famine/drought, migration/displacement, governance, and diseases associated with underdevelopment, the region is full of tremendous hope, faith, and vitality.
Midwest Jesuits have served and cooperated in the work of the Eastern Africa Province since 1987, serving in a variety of ministries including:
