PERU: Salesian Missionaries Provide Education and Safety in Violent Community
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries operate the San Juan Bosco Children’s Home within the community of Puerto Nuevo near the city of Callao, a major seaport in Peru. Recently, the Peruvian...
View ArticlePHILIPPINES: Salesian Anti-Cyberbullying Conference Provides Education to 200...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries partnered with UNICEF, the Child Protection Network (CPN) and other child safety organizations to organize a two-day anti-cyberbullying conference attended by...
View ArticleARGENTINA: Don Bosco School Celebrates 50 Years of Excellence in Winemaking...
(MissionNewswire) The Salesian-run Don Bosco School of winemaking and viticulture in the city of Mendoza in Argentina recently marked its 50th anniversary. Founded in 1965 in the heart of Argentina’s...
View ArticleGUATEMALA: Children Find Hope at Salesian-run Summer Youth Program in San Benito
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries operate a summer youth program in the municipality of San Benito in the El Petén region of northern Guatemala. The program offers classes in Spanish and English,...
View ArticleCAMBODIA: Salesian High School Student Pays it Forward Sending 39 Bicycles to...
(MissionNewswire) Joseph Sinnott, a Salesian High School student and Eagle Scout, completed a project to collect and repair bicycles for Salesian students in Cambodia. At the end of 2015, 39 bicycles...
View ArticleBRAZIL: Salesian Youth Center Holds Inspirational Talk by Paralympic Champion...
(MissionNewswire) The Mama Margaret Salesian Youth Center in Niterói, a municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the southeast region of Brazil, recently hosted an educational workshop for...
View ArticleCHILE: Salesian Missionaries Open New School and Technical Training Courses...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries working in Chile have expanded their reach to the northern region of the country where they recently opened a new school in the city of Calama and began offering...
View ArticleCAMBODIA: More than 700 Technical School Students Have Access to Better...
(MissionNewswire) The Don Bosco Technical Center and the Don Bosco Hotel School in Sihanoukville, a city in southwestern Cambodia located on the Gulf of Thailand, recently received a shipment of...
View ArticleINDIA: Salesian Missionaries Develop Mobile Medical Project Providing Health...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in New Delhi, India’s capital city, have recently launched a new project providing mobile medical care for street children. A mobile medical van utilized to...
View ArticleUNITED STATES: Salesian Students Tour Long Beach Memorial Medical Center to...
(MissionNewswire) Students taking part in a Biomedical Pathway program at the Salesian-run St. John Bosco High School in Long Beach, California recently had the opportunity to tour the biomedical...
View ArticleETHIOPIA: Water Well Projects Provide Safe Drinking Water and Improved...
(MissionNewswire) Since June 2011, Ethiopia has been plagued by a persistent drought that has damaged agricultural production and contributed to an increase in malnutrition, especially among the most...
View ArticleNICARAGUA: More Than 20,000 People Living in Poverty Have Access to Better...
(MissionNewswire) Children, the elderly and those living in poverty within the Salesian Diocese of Estelí, the third largest city in Nicaragua, have access to better nutrition thanks to an ongoing...
View ArticleINDIA: Women from Slums of Mumbai Access Skills Training through Don Bosco...
(MissionNewswire) At the end of January, 268 women from the slums of Mumbai, a densely populated city on India’s west coast, graduated from a Salesian-run 45-day skills training course. The women took...
View ArticleITALY: Salesian Vocational Center Develops New Agricultural Machinery Laboratory
(MissionNewswire) In December 2015, the Salesian-run Teresa Gerini Vocational Training Center in Rome, Italy opened the first agricultural machinery laboratory for professional training. The new...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: Salesian Missionaries at Don Bosco Gumbo are Providing School...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries at Don Bosco Gumbo, located in the town of Gumbo on the outskirts of Juba, the largest city and capital of South Sudan, have been continuing their work in the...
View ArticleBOLIVIA: Salesian Missionaries Educate 80,000 Youth in 230 Salesian Schools...
(MissionNewswire) Nearly 3,000 teachers educate 80,000 youth in 230 Don Bosco schools and educational programs across Bolivia. These Salesian schools and programs were founded to educate poor and...
View ArticleSYRIA: Salesian Programs Continue Providing Shelter and Education for Youth...
(MissionNewswire) The situation in Syria remains dire with new attacks and deadly fighting happening each day across the country. On February 21 alone, there were four explosions in the city of...
View ArticleINTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: Salesian Missions Highlights Women’s Education,...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian Missions joins the United Nations and its international partners in celebrating International Women’s Day, celebrated each year on March 8. The day celebrates the economic,...
View ArticlePARAGUAY: Donation Provides Emergency Food Relief to 40,000 Displaced by...
(MissionNewswire) Youth and their families living along the Paraguay River in Asunción, the capital and largest city of Paraguay, received emergency food relief in December 2015 after the region...
View ArticleITALY: Stop Human Trafficking Campaign is Helping to Prevent Exploitation and...
(MissionNewswire) In October 2015, Salesian missionaries in Italy kicked off a Stop Human Trafficking Campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of youth migration. With a focus on youth leaving...
View ArticleETHIOPIA: Salesian Missionaries Working with VIS Volunteers are Helping to...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries and volunteers with the International Volunteers for Development (VIS) are concerned that a devastating drought affecting Ethiopia is forcing residents to flee...
View ArticleLIBERIA: More Than 500 Students Benefit from New School Furniture
(MissionNewswire) The Salesian-run Mary Help of Christians Catholic High School, the Blessed Sandor Matadi Salesian Community offices and the Holy Innocents Matadi Foundation office, all located in...
View ArticleINDIA: New Water Project Gives Salesian Students Access to Clean Water and...
(MissionNewswire) Construction of new bathrooms and a clothes washing space is underway at Don Bosco Mariapuram located in the city of Warangal in the state of Telangana in Southern India. The project...
View ArticleSWAZILAND: Students in Salesian Programs Receive Better Nutrition Thanks to...
(MissionNewswire) Youth participating in Salesian-run Manzini Youth Care programs in the city of Manzini in Swaziland have received access to better nutrition thanks to a recent shipment of fortified...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: Salesian Missionaries Dig New Well Providing Close to 4,000...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries have completed a water well project in Morobo, a village less than two miles away from Don Bosco Gumbo, a Salesian center located in the town of Gumbo on the...
View ArticlePHILIPPINES: Laura Vicuña Foundation Provides Hope and Healing for Victims of...
(MissionNewswire) The Laura Vicuña Foundation, managed by the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, celebrated its 25 year anniversary at the end of...
View ArticleSIERRA LEONE: Salesian Missionaries Install New Well in Village Hard Hit by...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries are assisting the small village of Kumbrabai, 100 kilometers from the capital city of Freetown in Sierra Leone, which has been severely impacted by the Ebola...
View ArticleBENIN: Salesian Programs in Spain Support Food for Benin Campaign with Recent...
(MissionNewswire) In February 2016, volunteers from the Spanish nonprofit Ayuda Contenedores (Help Containers) and the Salesian-run Youth and Development Center joined together in Pamplona, Spain to...
View ArticleINDIA: Salesian Eco-Clubs Receive Award for Innovation and Sustainability
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in Tiruchy, a city in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu, received the Pascual Chávez 2015 Prize for innovative Salesian ministry in the South Asia region for their...
View ArticlePHILIPPINES: Past Pupils of Don Bosco Hold Medical Clinic Providing Care for...
(MissionNewswire) The Don Bosco Past Pupils Association of Lawaan recently held a medical clinic at the Don Bosco Formation Center in Talisay City in Cebu, an island province in the Philippines...
View ArticleDR CONGO: Radio Don Bosco Provides Youth Post-Graduate Work Experience
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in Lubumbashi, the second-largest city in the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, started Radio Don Bosco Congo, a free educational radio...
View ArticleIVORY COAST: More than 560 Youth at Salesian Programs Benefited from School...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian programs in Abidjan, the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, have new school, office and bedroom furniture thanks to a recent donation made possible by an ongoing...
View ArticleMEXICO: Salesian Tijuana Project Serves More Than 9,000 People Living in Poverty
(MissionNewswire) Since 1987, the Salesian-run Tijuana Project has been providing services to migrants and poor youth living on the border between Mexico and the United States. The goal of the project...
View ArticleSENEGAL: Center Kër Don Bosco Trains 220 in Professional Trades and Literacy...
(MissionNewswire) A Salesian-run project trained 70 women in professional trades and 150 women in literacy courses at the Center Kër Don Bosco in Dakar, the capital and largest city in Senegal. This...
View ArticleUGANDA: Salesian Missionaries Provide Agriculture Training to 140 Students
(MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries facilitate an agriculture project on six hectares of land on the grounds of the Don Bosco Children and Life Mission located in the town of Namugongo, just 10...
View ArticleINDIA: Salesian Human Rights Clubs Impact 32,420 Students across Two of...
(MissionNewswire) In February, a national convention of Salesian human rights clubs (also known as child rights clubs) was held in Hyderabad, the capital city of southern India’s Telangana state....
View ArticleCHILE: New Salesian Industrial College Provides Education in the Mining Field...
(MissionNewswire) After a year of planning and construction, Salesian missionaries in partnership with Aurora Williams, the Minister of Mining Activities in Chile, have recently inaugurated the...
View ArticleGLOBAL: World AIDS Day: Salesian Missions Highlights Programs Providing...
(MissionNewswire) Salesian Missions joins UNAIDS, the United Nations’ AIDS organization, and many other organizations around the globe in highlighting World AIDS Day 2015 celebrated each year on...
View ArticleSOUTH AFRICA: New vocational training center aims to educate poor youth,...
(MissionNewswire) A new Don Bosco Skills Training Center is being constructed in Delft, a small and overcrowded township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, according to an article in the...
View ArticleMALAWI: Don Bosco Youth Center provides youth a safe space for sports and...
(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Youth Center in Lilongwe, Malawi, has become a symbol of youth empowerment through sporting activities as well as vocational and technical education. The center conducts...
View ArticleUNITED STATES: Don Bosco Workers, Inc. protects immigrant workers’ rights in...
(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Workers, Inc. is a grassroots community-organizing group led by Latino immigrant day laborers and other low-income workers in Port Chester, N.Y. Launched in 2006, the...
View ArticleINDIA: Don Bosco Tech AIDA graduates 64 new trainees in the hospitality,...
(MissionNewswire) In Nagaland, located in the northeast of India, Salesian programs are working to help poor youth who have dropped out of school gain the skills needed for employment. Salesian...
View ArticleSIERRA LEONE: New Salesian short film “Love” debuts in Rome, highlights Don...
(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Fambul, one of Sierra Leone’s leading child-welfare organizations located in Freetown, showed a new short film titled “Love,” directed by Goya prize winner Raúl de la...
View ArticleINDIA: Don Bosco Tech Society partners with Axis Bank Foundation to provide...
(MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Tech Society, one of India’s largest skills training institutions, launched the Bosco Academy for Skills and Employment thanks to funding received from Axis Bank Foundation,...
View ArticleINDIA: Two Salesian universities chosen as new sites for India’s Atal...
(MissionNewswire) Assam Don Bosco University in Guwahati and Assam Agricultural University in Jorhat have been selected by the Indian government as new locations for Atal Incubation Centers under the...
View ArticleKENYA: Salesian missionaries offer vocational skills training to ensure...
(MissionNewswire) Kakuma was established in 1992 near Kenya’s border with South Sudan and was a place of refuge for unaccompanied minors fleeing warring factions in what was then southern Sudan. Today,...
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THAILAND: Don Bosco Technical College and Mercedes-Benz partner to provide...
(MissionNewswire) Mercedes-Benz has signed a new partnership agreement with Don Bosco Banpong Technological College as part of the company’s efforts to equip vocational students in Thailand with the...
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CENTRAL AMERICA: New appeal to help people impacted by hurricanes
Salesian Missions launches new fundraising appeal to help those impacted by hurricanes Eta and Iota (MissionNewswire) In November, Central America was hard hit by two Category 4 hurricanes. Hurricane...
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SYRIA: Salesians highlight emergency aid after earthquake
Focus turns to reconstruction, education and care projects SYRIA (MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with the Don Bosco House in Aleppo opened their doors to those in need after the devastating...
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GLOBAL: UNICEF-WHO report says women and girls bear brunt of water crisis
‘Clean Water Initiative’ makes supplying clean water to communities a priority (MissionNewswire) Women and girls are responsible for getting water in seven out of 10 households without supplies,...
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