More than 340 million women and girls will live in extreme poverty by 2030 and close to one in four will experience moderate or severe food insecurity, according to the recent “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023” report released by UN
Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in honoring International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11. The day, first held in 2012, was established to promote equal treatment and opportunities for girls and is an acknowledgment by the world that there
Don Bosco Immaculate Child Protection Center in Kara, Togo, organized training courses for vulnerable and at-risk youth to help them prepare for the future. The goal is to provide skills training in areas that will benefit them later in life. Training was offered in cooking,
The Global Solidarity Fund project, set up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia*, has helped improve the lives displaced of women and men, refugees from other countries, street children, and other vulnerable people. The project has brought together the five religious congregations of the Salesians of Don
Sixty youth attending the Vocational Training Center in Boscolac, located in Mugunga, Democratic Republic of the Congo*, were provided kits at the end of their cutting and sewing and cosmetic hairstyling training. The kits are part of a project known as AFC-22 implemented by the
Salesian Institute Youth Projects' "Stitch Ahead" program, located in Cape Town, South Africa, recently graduated 15 women who completed the three-month sewing course, according to an article in The Southern Cross. Graduates will go on to start careers or their own entrepreneurial endeavors. At graduation,
Salesian Missions has launched its Annual Food Distribution Appeal, enabling donors to multiply their gift many times over by turning a $1 donation into $20 of critical nutrition. Thanks to ongoing partnerships with international humanitarian aid organizations like Rise Against Hunger and Feed My Starving
Nearly 91,700 students are returning to classrooms at the 137 schools run by Salesian missionaries and Salesian sisters with the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) in Spain. In addition, Salesians run professional training schools to ensure youth have more advanced education with the
Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in honoring World Teachers’ Day celebrated each year on Oct. 5. The day honors the vital role that teachers play in the lives of their students. Since 1994, World Teachers’ Day has been held annually
Sixteen specialists and facilitators who are focused on the environment attended a three-day solar training workshop as part of Don Bosco Tech Africa’s Green TVET (technical and vocational education) project. The goal was to build the capacity of the participants in developing and implementing new