Salesian Missions Madrid and the Spanish Salesian Jóvenes y Desarrollo Foundation (Youth and Development) in Spain are helping Salesian organizations in countries around the globe respond to COVID-19. To date, the two organizations have sent more than 200,000 euros to the 12 countries of Bolivia, Ecuador,
As Angola faces the coronavirus pandemic, the most vulnerable in society are street children who have nowhere to turn and no one to care for them. Among the street children most at risk and most exposed are those in Luanda, the capital and largest city
At the Don Bosco Vocational Training Center, located in the city of Cali in the Valle del Cauca department, southwest of Bogotá, Colombia, youth liberated from armed conflict wanted to produce masks to prevent COVID-19 infections. Led by Father Jesús Bolaño, youth were provided access
The Mamma Margherita Mother and Child Care Center, which is part of the Domenico Savio Institute in the Ituzaingó neighborhood in Uruguay, had just opened five months prior to the coronavirus pandemic. While regulations won't allow the Salesian child care center to accommodate children and
Salesians for Social, which coordinates the Universal Civil Service in Italy and other countries, has reactivated 67 projects that had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. About 80 percent of the total activities from the organization have resumed including re-engaging 753 volunteers in 198 project
More than 1,200 youth attending Salesian schools and youth centers in East Timor had better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Rise Against Hunger. The shipment, which arrived in the last quarter of 2019, provided donated rice-meals to ensure students had a healthy
The Don Bosco Community Center in the Village of Port Chester, New York, is providing an average of 230 meals a day to support people in need due to the COVID-19 crisis. The Don Bosco Community Center has provided services for more than 80 years,
The Don Bosco Center in Mati, Philippines, has started an agricultural project to deal with the quarantine period due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal is to provide organic and affordable vegetables to the local population and neighboring communities and to teach them cultivation and farming techniques. Salesians
Salesian missionaries and refugees at the Palabek Refugee Resettlement Camp in Uganda are working to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. They are working on prevention efforts within the camp by preparing detergent-based sanitizers for handwashing. They have also launched an initiative to make face masks,
Salesian missionaries in San Pedro Carchá are making improvements to the physical structures of their mission in the city. Salesians have been working in the Alta Verapaz Department, located within the northern region of Guatemala, since 1935. Carchá and Chisec are small cities in this