Don Bosco Lahore distributed humanitarian aid to 200 Afghan refugee families in the community of Peshawar, Pakistan, thanks in part to donor funding provided by Salesian Missions. The Salesian community offered shelter and basic necessities to 1,500 people, who are mostly children. The aid was
A new basketball court is now available to youth at Palabek Refugee Resettlement Camp in Uganda. The idea of creating a space for youth to play sports began in 2019 when a benefactor gave a basketball to the youth. At the time, there was no
Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in honoring International Day of Education celebrated Jan. 24 each year since 2018. The 2022 theme for the day is “Changing Course, Transforming Education.”
More than 750 people in the Kwaethunu village in Ghana have fresh water to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The project, part of the Salesian Missions “Clean Water Initiative,” provided a borewell, water tanks and a pump.
The plight of street children in Nigeria and the work of Salesian missionaries with them was recently highlighted in “The Oratory,” a film by The Nollywood Factory in collaboration with Salesians of Don Bosco. The movie was directed by Obi Emelonye, a Nigerian film director,
Fifty students from the Salesian University School Sarrià, located in Barcelona, Spain, have created a single-seater car (EM-04) capable of competing in Formula Student, an international tournament promoted by the Society of Engineers that brings together more than 800 universities.
More than 1,100 students and 100 teachers at Don Bosco schools in Lahore and Quetta, Pakistan, have clean drinking water thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The project was part of the Salesian Missions “Clean Water Initiative.”
For the last four years, Salesian missionaries in Vientiane, Laos, have been distributing meals and gifts on Christmas Day to poor people who live in the waste dump on the city’s outskirts. Most recently, it was a collaborative effort of Salesian missionaries and sisters, along
The Salesian oratory Casa Valdocco in Torre Annunziata, Italy, held its annual soccer match on Dec. 21. The event brought together children from local communities and a representative of the National Association of Magistrates from the courthouse in Torre Annunziata. The event enabled youth to
Close to 4,000 people living in four villages in the Bono region of Ghana have access to clean water thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The project, part of the Salesian Missions “Clean Water Initiative,” provided new boreholes, pumps and water towers in the