Reconciliation, Right Relationships, and Social Justice-Experiences from JRS Asia-Pacific

Joseph Hampson, S.J., will speak about his work with the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Asia Pacific region.

After studies in London, Cardiff, and Toronto, Father Hampson was ordained in his home town of Glasgow, and missioned to southern Africa, where he worked at the School of Social Work at the University of Zimbabwe.  After a spell as Provincial of the Zimbabwe Province, then secretary to the Archbishop of Harare, he worked with Jesuit Refugee Service in the regional offices of Johannesburg, Abidjan, and Nairobi. He was first missioned to Asia in 2010, working in a refugee camp in northern Thailand, but this tenure was interrupted when he was called back as Province Treasurer in Zimbabwe and Mozambique for seven years, before a return to Thailand and JRS Asia Pacific. Currently he serves as JRS Regional Director for Asia Pacific.