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GLOBAL: Projects improve care for people with disabilities in Mexico and El Salvador

Feb 15, 2022

Thanks to funding Salesian Missions received from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (USAID/ASHA) program, Salesian missionaries have been able to launch building projects to improve the standard of medical care for people in El Salvador and Mexico. The projects are a mix of construction, equipment purchases and training to improve health care outcomes for people with physical disabilities.

MEXICO: Migrant mothers and children receive services in new center

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Dec 29, 2021

The Don Bosco Reception Center, a new space dedicated to giving shelter to women with children, was launched in Tijuana, Mexico. The reception center was set up to help women at risk, especially migrants. Women can receive legal, psychological, medical and spiritual services.

INT’L MIGRANTS DAY: Salesian Missions highlights educational and social programs that support migrants

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Dec 18, 2021

Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in honoring International Migrants Day. Each year, International Migrants Day is held on Dec. 18 to recognize the efforts, contributions and rights of migrants worldwide.

INT’L DAY OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: Salesian Missions highlights programs that provide education and support for people with disabilities

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Dec 03, 2021

Salesian Missions joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in honoring International Day of People with Disabilities. In 1981, the U.N. proclaimed Dec. 3 as a recognized day for the celebration of the achievements of people living with disabilities across the world. This year’s theme “Fighting for rights in the post-COVID era” focuses on the challenges, barriers and opportunities for people who live with disabilities, in the context of a global pandemic.

EL SALVADOR: New building receives sustainable construction award

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Nov 22, 2021

Don Bosco University in San Salvador, El Salvador, is empowering the next generation of medical rehabilitation practitioners to transform the lives of people with mobile disabilities through its “Walking Anew!” project. This project was made possible thanks to a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (USAID-ASHA) program secured by Salesian Missions. The annex building, which houses a laboratory and research building for people with mobility disabilities, recently won the Sustainable Construction Award granted by the Salvadoran Chamber of Construction (CASALCO) in the medium project category.

EL SALVADOR: New facilities for Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences inaugurated

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Jun 30, 2021

Don Bosco University in San Salvador, El Salvador, has inaugurated new facilities for the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences to empower the next generation of medical rehabilitation practitioners through its “Walking Anew!” project. This project was made possible thanks to a grant from USAID’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program secured by Salesian Missions.

MEXICO: Dining room reopens for migrants and other vulnerable people

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Jun 24, 2021

After only serving take-away meals for 15 months, the Salesian Padre Chava Refectory, located at the Salesian Center in Tijuana, Mexico, is open again to the public. The refectory provides meals and other assistance to migrants from Mexico, Central America and Haiti, as well as to the homeless, elderly, people with disabilities and those suffering from extreme poverty.

THAILAND: DiBosco Coffee provides youth an opportunity to learn and gain valuable work experience

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Sep 14, 2020

DiBosco Coffee, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is an initiative launched by Mr. Phaisan, who graduated from Don Bosco Technical School in Bangkok 20 years ago. Since then, Phaisan has focused his life on the three things he loves most—coffee, serving the poor and supporting Don Bosco initiatives. Today, Phaisan is operating DiBosco Coffee in an effort to help youth in need. Peter Kováč, a Salesian past pupil, is the co-founder of the DiBosco Coffee project and engaged in seeing the business grow.

MEXICO: Salesian Padre Chava Refectory serves more than 1,200 meals a day to those in need and impacted by coronavirus pandemic

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Aug 14, 2020

Salesian missionaries in Tijuana, Mexico, are still responding to the influx of people needing food assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, while already stretched thin providing for those who need food assistance in the city. Each day, the Padre Chava Refectory provides upwards of 1,200 meals with numbers increasing due to the pandemic.

GLOBAL: More children at risk of life-threatening malnutrition due to COVID-19, says new global report

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Aug 04, 2020

Worldwide, an additional 6.7 million children under the age of 5 could suffer from a severe malnutrition known as “wasting” before the end of 2020, said humanitarian leaders who analyzed the COVID-19 crisis and its risks to childhood malnutrition. The report and statistics were recently published in The Lancet. See how Salesian Missions is addressing childhood hunger around the globe.