Africa

Salesian missionaries are providing education and support for poor youth at the Notre Dame de Clairvaux Center in Ivato, Madagascar. Father Erminio de Santis has worked at the Notre Dame de Clairvaux Center for 20 years. In a letter, he spoke about two young students who were impacted by the school.

Salesians in Ghana had the support they need to facilitate pastoral work and social programs thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The St. Joseph Province in Ashaiman received funding to purchase a car so that Salesians could travel among the Salesian centers in Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and

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Americas & Caribbean

The Salesian St. Joseph Province of Uruguay took part in the Sustainable Uruguay Expo, an event organized by the Ministry for the Environment. The expo brought visibility and promoted initiatives and actions for environmental sustainability. The four-day event offered talks, debates, workshops, exhibitions and games for participants to learn first-hand

In the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, there are 47 Indigenous groups with about 26,500 inhabitants, who often rely on the land to earn an income. They practice subsistence agriculture, hunting, fishing and handicrafts. Biodiversity is increasingly threatened by intensive crops, pesticides and the extraction of various natural resources by

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Asia & Oceania

The National Federation of Past Pupils in Pakistan is working to save a school in Ziarat that was founded by Father Pietro Zago, a Salesian missionary who passed away in 2017. He spent 62 years as a missionary, serving youth in India, Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea,

Participants gained mobile journalism (MoJo) skills through the Boscom Executive Meet & Voices 2024 two-day workshop titled “Voicing out through MoJo.” This event was held at the Don Bosco Provincial House in Matunga, Mumbai, India, and was organized by Boscom, the communication body of South Asia, together with the Salesian

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Europe

Students from Salesian Rainerum Institute, located in Bolzano, Italy, recently attended the Genius Olympiad, an international competition of excellence, held in the United States at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Henrietta, N.Y. The students, part of the Rainerum Robotics Group, created the R.E.I. Robot, which they defined as artificial

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Special Reports From Salesian Missions

Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in celebrating World Youth Skills Day, celebrated on July 15 each year since 2014. The United Nations designated the day as a way to bring greater awareness of the importance of technical and vocational education and training, as well as the

Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in honoring World Refugee Day, held each year on June 20 since 2001. The day, which is coordinated by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other international organizations, honors the plight of millions of refugees and internally displaced people who

Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in honoring World Day Against Child Labor. The day has been celebrated on June 12 since 2002, and it brings attention to the global extent of child labor and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it.

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