02 JCAM 2021 Annual Review Welcome FROM THE EDITOR Anastasia Makunu, JCAM Communications From the Editor I am delighted to present to you the JCAM Annual Review for 2021. This is the fourth annual review which the JCAM staff has prepared and given all that has happened in our world across those four years and in Africa and Madagascar in particular, I hope you can join us in thanking God for the hard work, the dedication and the generosity of all the JCAM staff, supporters and benefactors. Anastasia Makunu In these pages I hope you find much to enjoy and celebrate. There is no single JCAM Communications template for what a Jesuit Conference does other than that of supporting the work and mission of the members of that Conference, in our case the seven Jesuit Provinces and Region which together make up JCAM. (see pg. 44.) The scope of what you see here takes us from the very grand international stage of world leaders gathered at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow to the very different reality of supporting prison ministry in Kenya through the work of the African Jesuit Aids Network completing this year 20 years of service; from trying to influence Zimbabwean parliamentarians to combat Illicit Financial Flows which transfer money out of those parts of Africa where it is most needed, to being a privileged part of what Pope Francis has invited the Church to build towards as a truly Synodal community of faith; from the colourful and diverse work of the formation of Jesuits in training to the wider challenge of constructing a network of Jesuit education in the Conference. I hope you enjoy it all and if you have any comment at all please find my contact details on the back cover page. You can see there too how to become a supporter of JCAM’s work. Happy reading Anastasia Makunu JCAM Communications