Salesian students won medals for their athletic ability in the National School Athletics Championships held May 23-26. The event, organized by the School Sports Division of the General Directorate of Education in Portugal, brought together more than 1,500 students and 250 teachers from all over
Don Bosco Fambul Childline, with the support of AEXCID and Atabal Foundation, launched a countrywide initiative to combat gender-based violence in Sierra Leone. The goals are to increase awareness on violence and mistreatment of youth, provide support for those impacted, and promote the 525 toll-free
The Salesian Bangalore Rural Education and Development Society (BREADS) launched anti-tobacco initiatives for World No Tobacco Day on May 31. The organization’s DREAM (Drug Rehabilitation Education and Mentoring) teams held a variety of activities and programs for youth in districts in Kerala, India. These programs
The Salesian Family in southern Brazil has mobilized to help those displaced by the recent floods in Rio Grande do Sul. Several activities were carried out by volunteers, groups of the Salesian Family and other associated institutions. The activities have been recognized for their effectiveness
The Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, located in Tezpur, Assam, India, is launching a school robotics laboratory to promote technology education, according to an article in East Mojo. Salesians are collaborating with Xantra, a robotics and AI edtech company in northeast India.
The Supporting Alliance for African Mobility (SAAM) project, an Erasmus+ pilot project financed by the European Commission, tested educational mobility of students and professionals between Africa and Europe in the field of vocational education and training, specifically in the engineering and manufacturing, hospitality, and agriculture
Don Bosco Center (Don Bosco City) in Medellín, Colombia, has been CO2 neutral since 2022. It is the first Don Bosco facility in the world that has reduced its CO2 footprint to zero and works climate neutral. The first step in the process toward this
Don Bosco Training Center, located in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, India, has partnered with Schaeffler India for a new initiative to train disadvantaged youth in the field of electric vehicle (EV) maintenance, according to an article in Mobility Outlook. The program is part of the Schaeffler Technical
Dom Bosco Institute in Porto Alegre, Brazil, has been welcoming truck drivers bringing donations and volunteers from Rondonópolis in Mato Grosso and Lauro de Freitas in the state of Bahia. The donations are being supplied to those who have been impacted by the recent flooding
Salesian missionaries living and working in Haiti are doing their best to help vulnerable people as they too have faced the insecurity that is ravaging the country. The United Nations has noted that the first quarter of 2024 has been the deadliest for Haitians with