Serving our Parish, Island and International Communities

Africa Jersey Forum Conference 2023 Malawi

 

The Minister visits the British High Commission in Lusaka before a follow up visit to the Fisheries and Livestock Minister in Zambia following the signing of the MOU in Feb 2023. Later that week they together launched the Dairy project together.

The Minister followed her visit to

2024-04-17T18:45:56+00:00June 20, 2023|

Jersey Cows to be discussed at African Conference

A conference which discusses the importance of the Jersey cow in African farming communities will take place in Malawi this month.

International Development Minister Carolyn Labey will be speaking at the African Jersey Forum Conference (AJF), and plans to visit communities in Malawi where Jersey cows are having a positive

2024-04-17T18:45:56+00:00June 19, 2023|

Overseas Aid Projects. Kenya, Nepal and Rwanda

I addressed a packed out St Paul’s Centre when we launched our Volunteer Programme. This year Jersey Overseas Aid are organising three Community Work Projects in Kenya, building a sand dam, in Nepal where we work with the Gurkha Welfare Trust and the community to build a community centre, and

2024-04-17T18:45:58+00:00February 10, 2023|

Fresh hope for a bright new chapter in the Island’s history

The JEP asked the Ministers to each write an article on their first impressions in Office..

THE first sitting of a new States Assembly is like starting a new school year (and yes I can just about remember those). There are some familiar faces and a lot of new ones. There

2024-04-17T18:45:35+00:00January 31, 2023|

Minister visits Poland amid humanitarian crisis

 

Jersey’s Minister for International Development, Deputy Carolyn Labey, visited Eastern Poland on Wednesday to follow up Jersey’s humanitarian support for the people of Ukraine.

In a warehouse near the border, she inspected medical trauma kits and oxygen concentrators like the ones which Jersey has already sent to the front lines. Jersey

2024-04-17T18:44:14+00:00April 16, 2022|

Jersey’s Conservation Livelihoods development strategy conference

Experts from around the world come together to discuss Jersey’s Conservation Livelihoods development strategy

April 13th 2022: Jersey Overseas Aid (JOA) hosted a two-day conference, ‘Shaping the Future of Conservation Livelihoods Funding Together’.

The event, which was hosted virtually from Durrell’s headquarters at Jersey Zoo on 7th and 8 th April and

2024-04-17T18:44:15+00:00April 16, 2022|

28 April 2022 JOA “Future of Volunteering” Network Event

The Future of Volunteering- 50th Anniversary of JOA’s CWP Event

Jersey Overseas Aid would like to invite islanders to join the first Jersey International Development Network event of the year – ‘The Future of Volunteering’ in celebration of the 50th anniversary of JOA’s Community Work Projects (CWPs) volunteering programme. The event

2024-04-17T18:44:15+00:00April 16, 2022|

Fund raising for Ukraine

Jersey has committed £360,000 in response to the crisis in Ukraine

As at 2 March 2022, Jersey Overseas Aid (JOA), the island’s official, publicly-funded relief and development agency, has pledged an initial £360,000 in response to the crisis in Ukraine.

Today, JOA Commissioners agreed to make initial grants worth £360,000 to be

2024-04-17T18:43:46+00:00March 2, 2022|
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