Students who are looking to make a career in renewable energy have an opportunity for education and advancement at Don Bosco Vocational Training Centers in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Iringa in Tanzania. After hearing about a scholarship, Marian Yusuph Said started a short course
The Don Bosco Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been supporting 20 groups of women run by the Association Villageoise d’Epargne et Crédit (AVEC), an association for savings and credit in the villages. Limitations to help stop the spread of coronavirus have
Father Angel Carbajal and Father Pedro Da Silva, both Salesians in Peru, are taking care of families living amid the Castile landfill in Piura. The people living there are trying to survive by collecting plastic and cardboard from the garbage. Now, during the coronavirus pandemic, these
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with the Don Bosco Youth Center, located in Rundu, Namibia, were able to continue with a feeding program for vulnerable children thanks to funding from Salesian Missions donors. Missionaries provided feeding support for youth who have dropped out of school and other
Salesian Social Platforms, which is run by the Salesian Pinardi Federation, has programs in Spain to help vulnerable unaccompanied minors. Salesian Social Platforms primarily supports children, adolescents and older youth. Of the 118,264 asylum applications submitted in Spain in 2019, 22,373 were from minors under
The Maria Auxiliadora Parish community in Concepción, Paraguay, has new audiovisual equipment thanks to donor funding through Salesian Missions. The equipment is necessary for the parish to conduct workshops with partners and youth and to carry out meetings focused on devotion to the Marian Catholic
The work of Salesian missionaries with at-risk youth was recently highlighted on social media by the Fundamental Rights Agency, a European Union agency focused on human rights. The agency shared a post on Twitter and Facebook that asked, “What did the COVID-19 isolation mean for
Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians, Sister Elsa P. Joseph, Sister Mary Clara Topno and Sister Susan Soren of the Salesian Parish St John Bosco in Malkerns, Swaziland, launched impressive relief efforts in the response to the coronavirus pandemic. From March 14 until the
[caption id="attachment_24025" align="alignright" width="248"] UGANDA[/caption] (MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries at the Palabek Refugee Resettlement Camp in Uganda are working to provide prevention information and food support in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been no coronavirus deaths in Uganda to date, but there are 696
Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in honoring World Refugee Day, held each year on June 20 since 2001. The day, which is coordinated by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other international organizations, honors the plight of millions of refugees and