(MissionNewswire) In 2018, Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, received funding from USAID’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program for its Raising Standards of Care for Spinal Cord Injury Patients project. The project will construct and equip Mexico’s
(MissionNewswire) The Don Bosco Vocational Training Center in Brazzaville, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Congo, educates close to 600 students. The students are overwhelmingly male but there are 26 girls in attendance. The center recently created a dressmaking workshop to help
(MissionNewswire) The Don Bosco Technical Institute Henderson, located in Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, launched a new project in 2019 to provide education to children living near the Ranadi dump site in a suburb east of Honiara. The families who live there experience high
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries working in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, have purchased a 4x4 Toyota Hilux truck to provide Salesian staff better transportation and accessibility in the region. This purchase was made possible by funding Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries operate a school in Marauià, a small village overlooking a tributary of the Rio Negro deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon forest. The area is populated by the Yanomami, one of the ethnic groups that lives within the Amazon. Salesian
(MissionNewswire) The Don Bosco Technical & Hotel School and the Don Bosco Children Fund Center, located in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, have experienced flooding from the recent Typhoon Lekima that has devastated parts of Asia. Typhoon Lekima hit Cambodia as a tropical storm and caused coastal flooding in
(MissionNewswire) Children accessing medical care at the Don Bosco Clinic in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, had access to better nutrition in the first quarter of 2019 thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco,
(MissionNewswire) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in recognizing International Youth Day. Celebrated each year on Aug. 12, International Youth Day was established by the United Nations to raise awareness of
(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco University in San Salvador, El Salvador, is empowering the next generation of medical rehabilitation practitioners to transform the lives of people with mobile disabilities through its “Walking Anew!” project. This project was made possible thanks to a grant from USAID’s American Schools
(MissionNewswire) Pius Sebastian Mutemi, a 26-year-old Salesian graduate of the Embu Salesian Seminary School, is a welding instructor at Don Bosco Boys Town, located in Nairobi, Kenya. The Salesian-run Bosco Boys program provides education and technical skills training to former street children and is currently