Salesian missionaries are focused on education in Timor-Leste to ensure students have the skills needed for employment. Schools offer both classroom education and hands-on work experience. At graduation many Salesian students are more prepared for the workforce than other youth. Additional programs at the schools
Salesian missionaries launched a new mission on the outskirts of Huambo, approximately 373 miles (600 km) from Angola’s capital city of Luanda. Invited by the local archbishop, three missionaries began their work in August 2021. Supported by seven volunteers, Salesians have started local pastoral care
Radio Don Bosco (Radio Dom), an online radio station established by Salesian missionaries and students in 2017 in Curitiba, Brazil, has been awarded first place in the radio journalism category by the Association of Public Defenders of the State of Ceará. This award, announced on
Students attending Fondation Vincent and Don Bosco Lakay in Cap-Haïtien and Don Bosco Lakay/Lakou in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, had better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Rise Against Hunger. In 2020, each center received a shipment of donated rice-meals to ensure students had
Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in honoring International Migrants Day. Each year, International Migrants Day is held on Dec. 18 to recognize the efforts, contributions and rights of migrants worldwide.
Don Bosco Vocational Center, operating inside Palabek Refugee Resettlement Camp in Uganda, offers education and vocational training to help young refugees prepare for employment. There are courses in mechanics, sewing, construction, agriculture, hairdressing, and solar energy. The center provides support for 56,000 refugees and 11,000
Five hundred students from the senior class at Don Bosco School Kokar, located in Ranchi, the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand, planted 500 rose plants. They participated in the program under the supervision and guidance of Father Babu Varghese, principal of the school,
Students attending the Salesian-run Timkatec schools in Pétion-Ville, Haiti, had access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Feed My Starving Children. A rice-meal shipment was sent to Timkatec in 2020. It was distributed among the boarding school and the canteens
The Salesian-run Cité des Jeunes School in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, had the roof blown off its boarding building due to strong winds and torrential rain. Youth have been evacuated, and no one was hurt during the incident. The boarding school welcomes 100
Salesian Missions facilitates the “Salesian Solidarity with Italy: the Emergency Response to COVID-19” project. The project is made possible with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Government’s main development agency operating in more than 100 countries worldwide. The project aimed