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TOGO: Salesian Film and Awareness Campaign Work to Address Violations of Children’s Basic Rights
By MissionNewswire at March 6, 2015 | 9:23 am
(MissionNewswire) A short documentary film, “Yo no soy bruja” (translated “I’m not a witch”), sponsored by the Salesian Missions office in Madrid, Spain, is one of 21 finalists for the Espiello Awards at the International Festival of Ethnographic Documentaries in Sobrarbe, one of the traditional districts of Aragon, Spain. The festival is the only national more...
EL SALVADOR: University Students, Faculty Benefit from Furniture Donated by Institution Recycling Network
By MissionNewswire at November 6, 2014 | 5:45 pm
(MissionNewswire) The Salesian-run Don Bosco University in San Salvador, El Salvador has new school and office furniture thanks to a recent donation made possible by an ongoing partnership between Salesian Missions and the Institution Recycling Network (IRN), an organization that matches surplus items with organizations and people who need them. Close to 35 percent of more...
Americas & Caribbean , El Salvador , Emergencies & Salesian Missions specific news
LIBERIA: More Than 1,000 Students Benefit from New School Furniture
By MissionNewswire at May 10, 2014 | 4:33 pm
(MissionNewswire) Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world with 64 percent of its population of 3.5 million people living below the poverty line, according to the World Bank. The 2008 Human Development Index ranks Liberia in the bottom five of countries in the world. Still recovering from the effects of a 14 year civil war that ended in 2003, Liberians more...
BRAZIL: New Socio-Sports Program is Teaching Youth Teamwork and Social Skills
By MissionNewswire at July 15, 2013 | 3:15 pm
(MissionNewswire) In Brazil, the Salesians continue to develop programs and provide youth opportunities for furthering their education and skills. According to UNICEF, large gaps exist between the rich and poor in the country where one in four people live in poverty. At-risk youth are exposed to drugs and violence on a daily basis and unemployment is a fact of life for more...
Americas & Caribbean , Brazil , OTHER Salesian News (not SM specific)
GLOBAL: Salesian Missions Partners with Institution Recycling Network, Benefitting Programs Around the Globe
By Stacy Jones at April 26, 2013 | 2:00 pm
(MissionNewswire) Salesian programs around the globe have received school and office furniture as well as workstations thanks to a new partnership between the Institution Recycling Network (IRN) and Salesian Missions. In recent months, IRN has sent shipments of furniture and workstations to Salesian sites in Haiti, the Philippines, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. more...
Global , OTHER Salesian News (not SM specific) , Partner News
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: New Socio-Sporting Schools Give Hope to Street Children
By MissionNewswire at November 1, 2012 | 1:09 pm
(MissionNewswire) The Salesians of Madrid and the Real Madrid Foundation in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the Salesian Province of the Antilles, celebrated the opening of their first two socio-sporting schools in the Dominican Republic with an inauguration ceremony on Sept. 27 at the Dominic Savio School House more...
Americas & Caribbean , Dominican Republic , Featured on slider
UNITED NATIONS: Range of Issues of Global Concern Discussed in UN Meetings with World Leaders
By MissionNewswire at September 28, 2012 | 10:28 am
(United Nations) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with a range of world leaders and other high-level officials for discussions on a gamut of topics of global concern, on the margins of the high-level debate of the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting between the Secretary-General and the President of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, saw the two men discuss more...
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