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HAITI: Salesian Missions Launches Emergency Fundraising Campaign to Aid Relief Efforts Following Hurricane Matthew

October 5, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Salesian Missions has launched an emergency fundraising campaign to purchase relief supplies and provide assistance to those affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. “What is most needed at times like this are cash donations,” explains Father Mark Hyde, executive director of Salesian Missions, the U.S.

EL SALVADOR: New Salesian Initiative Aims to Promote Inclusion for Students with Hearing Disabilities

September 30, 2016

(MissionNewswire) The Association of Salesian Students for Thought and Civic Education (AESPEC) and the Salesian Association of Students of Aeronautics (ASEA) at the University of Don Bosco in El Salvador recently launched Without Barriers initiative. Without Barriers promotes the social integration of hearing impaired students

NIGERIA: Salesian Missionaries Building Schools, Boarding Homes for Street Children

September 29, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries are in the process of setting up schools, boarding homes and running water for poor youth in the area of Koko within Kontagora, a major town on the south bank of the Kontagora River in Northwestern Nigeria. The area lacks educational opportunities

ECUADOR: Salesian Missionaries Continue to Focus on Rebuilding, Education after Earthquake

September 27, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Five months after the 7.8 earthquake that killed 673 and left tens of thousands homeless in Ecuador, Salesian missionaries living and working in the area are still helping those who have been affected. They are also working to ensure that no child is left

ZAMBIA: Salesian Missions Gifts-in-Kind Program Makes a Difference for Those in Need

September 26, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Youth, the elderly and those who are sick participating in Salesian-run programs in Zambia have received access to better nutrition thanks to recent shipments of fortified rice-meals. The donation was made possible through an ongoing partnership between Salesian Missions and Stop Hunger Now, an

CAMBODIA: Don Bosco Children’s Fund Starts New Center for At-Risk Children

September 22, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Children Fund, a branch of the Don Bosco Foundation Cambodia, recently launched a new multifunctional center for children in the city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The center includes a kindergarten, nursery, daycare center, and shelter. The goal of the new center is to

SAMOA: Salesian Missions Funds New Water Tank Project at Don Bosco College and Vocational Center

September 21, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco College and Vocational Center in Salelologa, a village district at the east end of Savai'i Island in Samoa, has a new water tank system thanks to funding provided by Salesian Missions, the U.S development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The

INDIA: Salesian Students Complete Innovative Sanitation Project Giving Back to Their Community

September 20, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Salesian students in their final year of their civil engineering technical degree with Don Bosco Self Employment Research Institute in Howrah, a municipal corporation in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India, recently completed a water project building and installing state-of-the-art toilets. The new

ZAMBIA: Salesian Distance Adoption Program Helps Poor Youth Attend School

September 15, 2016

(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries at their community in Kazembe, a town in the Luapula Province of Zambia, operate a Distance Adoption program where donors help sponsor children to go to school. Missionaries have been working with poor youth and their families since 1982. Many families living

ECUADOR: Salesian Missionaries Provides Education, Workforce Development Services to Indigenous Youth Living in the Amazon

September 14, 2016

(MissionNewswire) More than 20 years ago, Salesian Father Silvio Broseghini developed the Salesian-run Chankaup Foundation to help educate and provide workforce development services for the Achuar, a group of indigenous people in the Amazon who possess a rich, ancient culture and preserve their environment and