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SPAIN: Don Bosco Foundation Project is Helping Youth Connect in School and Excel

May 25, 2017

The Don Bosco Foundation Project, based at the San Isidro Salesian Institute in de La Orotava, Spain, has for many years carried out education and social development programs for young children and older youth, improving their lives and offering them a change at a brighter

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Salesian Sisters Launch New Technical Secondary School for Girls

May 24, 2017

The Caritas Sisters of Jesus, part of the Salesian family, recently launched a new technical secondary school for girls in Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. The Salesian sisters opened their first school in the country in East Boroko, Port Moresby in 1996. Now a little more

SIERRA LEONE: Mobile Outreach Provides Counseling and Medical Care to Street Children in Freetown

May 23, 2017

Don Bosco Fambul, one of Sierra Leone’s leading child-welfare organizations, launched surveys in Sept. 2016 and Feb. 2017 to better understand the reality of street children’s lives in Freetown, the capital city. As a result, Salesian missionaries have noted that close to 2,000 children are

MOZAMBIQUE: Salesian Vocational Training Programs Helps Gain the Skills Needed for Employment

May 22, 2017

Opened by Salesian missionaries to meet the needs of poor youth, the Don Bosco Institute at Maputo provides vocational and technical training to poor youth in Mozambique. The institute offers youth a chance to gain skills needed to find and retain long-term employment once they

VIETNAM: Salesian Lay Missioners Teach English Language to Students in Salesian Programs

May 19, 2017

Michael Gordon is one of seven international volunteers from the Salesian Lay Missioners program teaching English language to students across five centers in Vietnam. Gordon is teaching at Don Rua in the city of Da Lat. He spends his day teaching one-on-one with students and

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,