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MEXICO: Salesian Missionaries Assist Haitian Migrants and Mexicans Deported from the United States

May 18, 2017

Between May 2016 and January 2017, Salesian missionaries faced a wave of Haitian migrants at its Salesian center, Desayunador Salesiano, in Tijuana. Haitian migrants arrived dizzy, exhausted, cold, hungry, and broke after their three-month land journey from Brazil. Some were sick. Some had delivered babies

DR CONGO: Salesian Bakanja Center Aims to Help Street Children Access Shelter and Education

May 17, 2017

Salesian missionaries at Bakanja Center, in the city of Lubumbashi in the southeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are helping youth living on the streets escape a life of poverty. Poverty and family breakdown are the main reasons for the large number

MADAGASCAR: Salesian Clairvaux Center Provide Hope and Education to Street Children

May 11, 2017

In Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, many residents do not have electricity or running water. Entire families crowd the streets of the suburbs, connected by slopes of sand and clay, accessible only by jeep. The people live in improvised makeshift shelters. It’s there that Salesian

EGYPT: Salesian Missionaries Offer Oratory and Parish in Cairo Community

May 10, 2017

Salesian missionaries in the community of Zaytoun within the city of Cairo, Egypt, offer an oratory and parish. The programs primary serve young Egyptians and South Sudanese who are refugees in the country. Father Dany Kerio, rector of the Salesian community, notes that the oratory

ZAMBIA: Salesian Missions Provides Funding for Clean Water Project and Food Production at Agriculture School

May 9, 2017

Salesian Missions, the U.S development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, recently provided funding for Salesian missionaries work in Lufubu, Zambia. The funding helped support a clean water project and food production that impacted local Salesian programs. In the poor remote community of Lufubu,

ZAMBIA: Salesian Agricultural School in Lufubu Receives Donor Funding for Internet Access and Nutritional Security Project

May 8, 2017

(MissionNewswire) The Salesian Agricultural School in Lufubu was able to install internet access for the school thanks to grant funding they received through a private donor named Mary and by the Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero, Louisiana. The donations for the project came through

DR CONGO: Close to 4,000 Salesian Students and Staff Have Better Access to Clean Water

May 6, 2017

(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries at two Salesian training and vocational centers in the city of Lubumbashi in the southeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo just completed water projects thanks to funding provided by Salesian Missions. Close to 4,000 youth, parents, Salesian staff, and

SIERRA LEONE: More Than 900 Youth, Widows Receive Better Nutrition Thanks to Recent Rice-Meal Donation

May 3, 2017

(MissionNewswire) Poor youth, the elderly and widows were those who benefited from a recent shipment of rice-meals thanks to an ongoing partnership between Salesian Missions and Feed My Starving Children, a nonprofit Christian organization committed to “feeding God’s children hungry in body and spirit.” More

INDIA: Salesian Kindergarten and Elementary School Educates 700 Children in Tribal Settlement

April 27, 2017

(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in Garigaon, a small settlement located in a strongly tribal region in the state of Assam, operate an elementary school with a kindergarten program that accommodates up to 700 children. Most of the people living in Garigaon belong to different ethnic groups

BRAZIL: Salesian University is Ranked Eighth Best University in all of Brazil

April 27, 2017

(MissionNewswire) According to results released by Brazil’s Ministry of Education, the Salesian-run Catholic University Center of Vitória was ranked as the best university center in the State of Espírito Santo and the eighth best in all of Brazil. The research that confirmed the ranking was