Salesian missionaries live and work among the refugees at Palabek Refugee Resettlement Camp in Uganda. While other humanitarian organizations provide services to the camp, the Salesians are the only ones living there among the people. They have been supporting refugees since the opening of the
Don Bosco alumni have started a free food distribution drive called "Bosco on Wheels" at the Don Bosco School in Park Circus, a neighborhood in Central-South Kolkata in the Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. Don Bosco alumni have also created Bosco Cares — a model
Salesian students living in the Apostolic Vicariate of el Chaco, Paraguay, have new housing thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The 2022 project provided a new apartment building for disadvantaged Indigenous college students who are studying in the capital of city of Asunción.
Youth attending Salesian schools and youth centers in Timor-Leste had access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Rise Against Hunger. In the first quarter of 2023, Rise Against Hunger provided the funding that allowed the Don Bosco Foundation to buy
Salesian Missions launched its annual “Loaves and Fishes” fundraiser which raises funds to ship life-saving aid to more than 130 countries around the globe. Because the cost of shipping critical aid is far less than its value, donations are multiplied many times over. For every
Don Bosco Makululu Center, located near the town of Kabwe, Zambia, provides for youth whose families cannot meet their educational and basic needs because of extreme poverty. In 2022, the Salesian Missions Office in Turin, Italy, launched a project to provide food, hospitality, medical care
Salesian missionaries in Tikonko, in the Bo district of Sierra Leone, have transformed the economy of an entire village by employing 30 families in harvesting and drying the leaves of the Moringa oleifera plant. The plant, imported from India, is also called a miracle plant
Don Bosco Technical School in Gatenga, Rwanda, has launched a new project to teach youth how to practice modern agriculture that improves crop yields while not harming the environment. The project will teach organic and sustainable farming methods at the Don Bosco Youth Center and
Salesian Tijuana Project is committed to the most vulnerable people in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, especially migrants and refugees. The Salesian Center houses a refectory and other project activities. Since 1987, it has been providing services to migrants and poor youth living on the
Salesian missionaries in the Imo state of Nigeria had the funding to help local farmers thanks to donor support from Salesian Missions. The project “Post-COVID Empowerment through the Provision of Poultry and Farm Crops for Poor Young People and Women in Nigeria” supported four poor