(MissionNewswire) Thanks to funding secured by Salesian Missions, 120 youth attending the Don Bosco Youth Center Dwarzak Project, located in Freetown, Sierra Leone, have participated in workshops, sports and other activities. In addition, the youth center has provided nutritional assistance to 50 youth three times
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries are currently developing a special project for single mothers living on the streets in Luanda, Angola. They are renovating a building for young women to live in and receive services with the goal of creating a safe shelter where participants are guaranteed
(MissionNewswire) This summer, seven youth from Syria and one from Spain are participating in an exchange that is part of the Salesian Suriya Project which aims to bring together youth from Salesian youth centers in both countries. In March 2017, Salesian youth centers in Spain
(MissionNewswire) Every year the Salesian Cagliero Project in Australia brings a group of young students to another country for an immersion experience. This year they traveled to Cambodia and spent their time at the Don Bosco Technical Center in Phnom Penh which provides technical education
(MissionNewswire) The Salesian medical clinic in Mitad del Mundo, Ecuador, has given new life to a young woman with a serious medical condition. Today, Nataly who is 19 and has been going to the Salesian clinic for rehabilitation, is walking better and without pain. She’s
(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Vocational Training Centers in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Iringa in Tanzania have been working to advance each center’s ability to provide technical and vocational training in renewable energy. To date, 260 students are accessing renewable energy training at Don Bosco Vocational
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries have launched a Germinating Young Entrepreneurs project in the small town of Rodeo del Medio in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. The project, which provides professional training in beekeeping, gardens and aromatic plants, is expanding the scope of training offered at the
(MissionNewswire) Salesian graduate, Sebastián Núñez, who completed his studies in 2018 at the Salesian School in Asunción, Paraguay, was selected to speak about his experience at NASA at a recent TED Talk. In July 2018, Núñez was accepted into NASA's Space Camp program at the U.S.
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have launched a new initiative to train teachers of technical and vocational institutes. Called, the ENTEC Technical School, it aims to improve the quality of education and employment prospects of young Haitians by ensuring that their teachers have the
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries are providing clean water access to children and families in Cité Plateau III which is a poor and overcrowded area of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Child labor is considered normal and the rate of schooling is extremely low. Part