(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries have been working in Dilla, a town of nearly 90,000 people located in southern Ethiopia, since 1982. In January 2018, missionaries launched an elementary school which currently serves 554 students between the ages of 5 and 12, many of whom come from
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with the Nepal Don Bosco Society have continued with a “Future Helpers” program that was launched as part of long-term reconstruction efforts after the devastating 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015 and the second earthquake struck just after that on
(MissionNewswire) Hundreds of disadvantaged and out-of-school youth will benefit from a new technical-vocational training facility built on the grounds of the Don Bosco Training Center Mati which is located in Mati City within the Davao Oriental province on Mindanao, the second largest island in the
(MissionNewswire) The Don Bosco oratory, located in the district of Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, has launched the XteStudio workshop as part of the IN.S.I.E.ME project which provides extra educational support for marginalized youth. IN.S.I.E.ME is active in 17 locations throughout Italy and aims to combat
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in Ghana operate in more than 50 villages and communities with the number of inhabitants ranging from 70 to 3,500 in each. Most are small settlements cut off from the main cities that rely on streams or surface water courses for their
(MissionNewswire) In March 2017, Salesian youth centers in Spain launched a project called Suriya to support youth affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria. Given the number of refugees fleeing to European cities, youth in Salesian programs wanted to help those who had remained in
(MissionNewswire) The Salesian Youth Ministry of the Province of Great Britain is developing a new project to offer young refugees and asylum seekers between the ages of 14 and 17 the opportunity to go on vacation. Called the Valdocco Project, it was created in response
(MissionNewswire) The Salesian-run Soggiorno Proposta Recovery Community in Ortona, a coastal town in the Abruzzo region of Italy, provides education, therapy and residential activities for youth who are trying to heal from addictions. The center has been active for 35 years and offers four different
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries have been working in Eritrea since 1995 settling first in Dekemhare, a town roughly 40 km southeast of the capital city of Asmara. In 1996, the Eritrean government donated land to Salesian missionaries who brought education and social programs to the desert
(MissionNewswire) Students from the Salesian Institute of Verona, Italy are celebrating their recent win at the FIRST LEGO League World Championship which challenges young students to think like scientists and engineers. The Salesian students came in first place in the championship which was held on