SOCIAL APOSTOLATE / SOCIAL WORK
To improve quality of life of marginal tea plantation community in North Bengal, to provide social justice and human dignity to the marginalized and underprivileged people, and to make tea plantation workers, especially tribal groups independent and self-reliant.
OUR GALLERY
HAYDEN HALL INSTITUTE
DarjeelingHayden Hall was the concrete realization of Fr Burns' dreams in 1969 to have a centre in town where students and alumni of St Joseph's College, Darjeeling, could have hands-on experience of working with and for their poorer brothers and sisters, for their development and for the development of the Hills.
JESU ASHRAM
MatigaraJesu Ashram was born, like a lotus, from the muck and misery of war when every raindrop of the 1971 monsoon fell like tears from the eyes of millions of refugees fleeing to India before the army of East Pakistan.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIAL INSTITUE (SOJASI)
KurseongSOJASI (society of Jesus Agricultural Social Institute) is located in a busty called "Chimney" under the Deorali Post Office. Chimney is a remote, windy, mountain-top area at an altitude of about 4500 ft., and close to the Kurseong town.
HUMAN LIFE DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH CENTRE
The seed for the creation of a new social action centre named Human Life development & Research Centre (HLDRC) was sown when the new provincial took over his office in 2012 and decided that the Darjeeling Province move from the charitable and development model of social work to that of rights-based social action model.
LOYOLA PASTORAL CENTRE
MatigaraThe Loyola Pastoral Centre at Matigara is an initiative of the Society of Jesus. It was established in 1985 by then Jesuit Regional Superior, Father Joseph Pappadil, S.J.