(MissionNewswire) Youth attending the Don Bosco Youth Center in Rundu, Namibia have access to clean, safe water thanks to the installation of a new water tank funded through donations to Salesian Missions. The project is part of Salesian Missions “Clean Water Initiative.” As a result of
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with Don Bosco Technical High School in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city, have launched a new vocational training course for electro-technicians. There is an afternoon class available to high school students which compliments their current educational path as well as a morning class
(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco City, located in Medellín, Colombia, has been working with youth for 54 years and has saved more than 1,300 from a life of violence. It is estimated that close to 6,000 minors are still utilized as child soldiers with thousands more having
(MissionNewswire) In May, the Salesian Family in the Dominican Republic introduced 153 new youth leaders to Dominican society. The youth were trained through the Salesian Youth Animators Formation Program (Programa de Formación de Animadores Juveniles, PROFAJ). It was the program's 33rd course and had the
(MissionNewswire) In May, the Salesian National Federation of Past Pupils and Friends of Don Bosco in Malta launched a new mentoring program to assist homeless youth. The new program is funded through Erasmus+, the European Union’s program to support education, training, youth and sport in
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in Chile have launched new initiatives with the goal of helping to educate more youth. They have laid the foundation stone for a new St. Domenico Savio building that will become part of the future Salesian Industrial School in Copiapó, a city
(MissionNewswire) Youth from the Salesian Vocational Training Center in Valdocco, a quarter within the city of Turin, Italy, have entered into a sister-city relationship with the Salesian Center in Aleppo, Syria. As part of the agreement between the two Salesian centers, youth in Italy will
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in Ghana focus on education and the growing demand for skills training to help youth gain the skills needed to find and retain stable employment. The Don Bosco Technical Institute in Ashaiman, a large town in the Greater Accra Region of South
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries are working to improve education, social support and clean water access for youth living in Nigerian communities. In January 2017, Salesian missionaries launched the Bosco Boys Home in Ibadan, the state capital of Nigeria’s Oyo state with a population of more than
(MissionNewswire) Youth attending the Don Bosco Center in Lungi, a small coastal town in the Port Loko District of the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, have access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Feed My Starving Children, a nonprofit Christian