St. Ignatius of Loyola

Founder

St. Ignatius of Loyola is the founder (of the society of jesus, as the province's site says) of Karnataka Jesuits [1], an Indian non-profit working on education and faith-based service from Bengaluru.

Karnataka Jesuits

The Karnataka province of the Jesuits runs an extensive network of institutions across the state: schools in Bengaluru, Mangaluru, Mundgod, Manvi and other towns, pre-university and degree colleges including St Joseph's University in Bengaluru, industrial training institutes, parishes, and retreat houses such as Dhyanashrama. Its work joins education with Ignatian spirituality and inter-religious dialogue.

Karnataka Jesuits reports the following, on its own site:

3,949 children from rural villages and urban slums are reached out through rights based and supplementary education programmes
11,346 women empowered from rural sections of our society through Self-Help Groups and various conscientization programmes
751 youth are trained and placed through skill training projects every year
20,185 students in our schools who are given value-based education, equipping them to be better citizens