Don Bosco Nerul, located in Mumbai, India, has launched a new initiative to help people impacted by the coronavirus pandemic gain skills for employment. The initiative launched with 17 women, aged 19-45, who have signed up for online classes, which also include English language lessons.
Anjali Tresa Veliath, a counselor at Don Bosco School Alaknanda, located in New Delhi, India, was awarded a certificate of appreciation for her extraordinary and dedicated service in providing COVID-19 counseling to Delhi police personnel. As India went to a total lockdown, there was chaos
Salesian missionaries with Don Bosco Konkan Development Society in Goa, India, were able to provide more than 50,000 people with nutritional support thanks to donors, including funding from Salesian Missions. Salesian missionaries continue to supply food and sanitary kits to people who are now dealing
Don Bosco School Mebo, in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has clean water access thanks to funding received by Salesian Missions "Clean Water Initiative," which enabled it to build underground water tanks to harvest rainwater. Water tanks are completed at the school and near the boys’ hostel.
Salesian missionaries with Don Bosco Navajeevan, located in Hyderabad, India, launched a training course during the pandemic lockdown which teaches people how to make bread and sweets. The project is known as “Chiguru sweets cart for sustainable development." This new training has created new paths
Salesian missionaries with the Institution for Cultural and Rural Development (I-CARD) based at Jorhat, Assam, India, are providing clean water access thanks to funding from Salesian Missions “Clean Water Initiative.” The project provided hand water pumps, clean drinking water and toilets for families in the
Salesian missionaries with Retreat-Don Bosco in Yercaud, India, recently held a 21-day training course in nursery and nature preservation for 40 people. Because Yercaud is a hill town, most people earn their living through tourism. Given the lockdown, residents have seen poverty and hunger on
Programs for youth at Don Bosco Snehalaya, located in Guwahati within the Indian state of Assam, are being supported through Salesian Missions donor funding. Salesian missionaries operate five homes for poor and orphaned youth in the region, as well as educational programs, summer activities and
The Anma Integrated Development Association (AIDA) was able to support 13 farmers with tea saplings thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The tea project was developed in 2008 to help tea garden laborers in Assam, a state in northeastern India. The goal of the
Sixty families in six villages in the Rambrai area of Meghalaya, India, received solar lighting thanks to funding from Salesian Missions donors. Their rural homes had no electricity, and children were unable to do their homework and study for exams in the evenings. Mothers also