Salesian missionaries operate the Don Bosco Youth Center in Mekanisa, an area on the outskirts of the capital city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The center provides access to education, nutrition and health services for 400 poor youth. Most of the youth are street children.
St. Augustine Agricultural Junior Secondary School, located in Lungi, Sierra Leone, received support from donor funding from Salesian Missions. The school, which was established in 1984, has 14 classrooms, a computer lab, an infirmary/clinic and an administrative building. The school provides education to marginalized students
More than 2,300 people in Eswatini had access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Feed My Starving Children. The food shipment was sent in 2022 and shared with several Salesian programs and communities.
Youth attending St. Mary Mazzarello School and City of Hope Community School in Zambia had access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Feed My Starving Children. The 2022 shipment of rice-meals fed more than 2,300 students at each school.
Salesian missionaries in Funchal, Portugal, have signed a collaboration protocol with the Child Development Aid Center to provide use of the Salesian pool complex for aquatic therapy sessions for youth with neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Salesian missionaries in Machala, Ecuador, launched a project to provide technical education for more than 200 at-risk young people from low-income sectors in the city. Salesians also supported 20 small family business initiatives to improve the living conditions of the beneficiaries.
Salesian missionaries, through the Emergency Coordination for Displaced Persons, distributed food rations consisting of cornmeal, beans, cooking salt, vegetable oil and soap to 320 families in the Kanyaruchinya camp, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.* The distribution was made possible thanks to the
Youth with the City of Hope in Lusaka, Zambia, have soap and furniture thanks to donations received by Salesian Missions. The soap donation was provided by Eco-Soap Bank, a humanitarian nonprofit organization working to save, sanitize and supply recycled soap with hygiene education for the
Five students received scholarships to attend Don Bosco Technique, located in Fidar, Lebanon,* thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The school is one of the area’s few professional institutes and welcomes many youth who have difficulties attending school. The goal is to provide them
Sixty-three youth who attend the Don Bosco Center in Rundu, Namibia, had a healthy breakfast before school thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The youth ranged in age from 7-15 and were from poor families. This food helped to ensure they had at least