Formation | 1956 |
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Type | Non-profit corporation |
Purpose | Social justice and Volunteer work |
Headquarters | 801 Saint Paul St. Baltimore, MD 21202 |
Region served | United States, Chile, Peru, Belize, Tanzania, and Micronesia |
Membership | 10,000 alumni |
President | Tom Chabolla |
Volunteers | 250 |
Website | jesuitvolunteers.org |
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S.[1] JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses, the elderly, children, and on behalf of other marginalized groups. Jesuit Volunteers (JVs) in the international program that places volunteers in other countries.