The Don Bosco Vazhikaatti team from Chennai and Trichy, India, has been recognized by the Tamil Nadu government’s Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare (ADTW) Department for its outstanding contribution providing career guidance to students in Adi Dravidar Welfare hostels and schools. Its efforts have positively
Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in recognizing World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. In 2013, United Nations member states adopted a resolution that designated July 30 as the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The day aims to raise awareness about
Migrant students from the Salesian Garelli 95 Association, located in Pontoise in the French department of Val-d'Oise, have put their harrowing journey to music in a video called, “This is My Story.” The music video was created for “Festclip”, the Salesian festival of short films
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
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,
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
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,
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,
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
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