St. Dominic Savio Center in Cartago, Costa Rica, has been providing educational workshops for people, with a focus on women, for the past 40 years. The goal is for students to acquire a trade and start their own businesses. Currently, the workshops provide education to
Don Bosco Youth Center in Kazembe, Zambia, has launched a goat rearing project thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The funding provided 28 young goats and the construction of small barn to shelter them.
While the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still facing ongoing clashes that have been displacing thousands of people, Salesian missionaries continue with their work. The medical center has been transformed into an emergency hospital for thousands who have
Don Bosco Boys Home, located in Sunyani, Ghana, provides social support and education to boys in the care of Salesian missionaries. The center was established in 1989 for the rehabilitation of at-risk youth. The rehabilitation and development process at the center is based on the
Salesian Missionary Volunteer Program with the Salesian Province of the United States in California recently carried out its first missionary expedition since the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve students from St. Francis High School in Watsonville, Calif., guided by two of their teachers, the school’s director, and
Salesians highlight ongoing programs for youth in the face of conflict and the devastating earthquake in Syria. The Salesian center in Kafroun took in more than 370 people during the worst years of the war and is now also welcoming those displaced by the earthquake.
Salesian missionaries deliver meals and provide social support for boys in the state-run rehabilitation center in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Salesians also provide engaging recreational activities.
Youth attending Salesian schools and youth centers in Timor-Leste had access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Rise Against Hunger. In the second half of 2022, Rise Against Hunger provided funding to the Don Bosco Foundation so that locally sourced
The new initiative “Grow Bosco” was launched in early March in the Salesian St. Joseph Province in Hyderabad, India. “Grow Bosco” was started by Father Ángel Fernandez Artime, the Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Fr. Artime, general councilors and children planted trees
Sacred Heart of Jesus Post-Novitiate Salesian community in Sunter, North Jakarta, Indonesia, has been taking steps to increase environmentally friendly practices. They are collecting used beverage bottles to recycle, which keeps them from going into the ocean. In addition, the money earned from recycling turns