Overcoming Adversity to Educate Nepal’s Youth
September 3, 2020
What happens when COVID-19 closures and restrictions threaten educational continuity for students in Nepal? Our Salesian missionaries step up with creative solutions—just as they did in 2015, when a catastrophic earthquake destroyed more than 1,300 schools in 75 districts across the country. In...
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South African Youth Serving the Poor
September 3, 2020It’s winter in South Africa, and poverty-stricken residents are struggling particularly hard this year—especially children and the elderly. Rather than stand by idly, a young man with the spirit of Don Bosco has rallied 14 of his peers to assist some of their most vulnerable neighbors in...
Cultivating Hope for India’s Tea Laborers
September 3, 2020Manglu works on a tea plantation in the northeastern state of Assam, India as a day laborer. Even before the global pandemic, this 39-year-old husband and father struggled to support his family on the meager daily wages he earned. Now, thanks to generous Salesian Missions donors, he has established...
Don Bosco Graduate Among Pandemic Heroes
August 12, 2020One of the many unsung medical heroes putting their lives on the line during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is Don Bosco graduate, Doctor Venancio de León of Guatemala. Exemplifying true Salesian spirit, he lives to serve others, forgoing wealth and serving among the poorest of the poor. The...
Safeguarding Communities with Basic Necessities
August 12, 2020The global pandemic has brought increased challenges to those living in poverty. In many countries, economic shutdowns and government restrictions have deprived migrant workers and many others of the means to earn a living, while homeless children left to beg on the streets are more vulnerable than...
Planting the Seeds for a Sustainable Future
August 12, 2020The Don Bosco Oratory in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, is set to launch a new virtual environmental program that will teach families and children how to create their own home gardens. The virtual program, designed to meet the needs of the community during the coronavirus lockdown period, is part...
Combating COVID-19: Answering the Call around the World
July 8, 2020“Time is of the essence,” Marlou Madrio wrote in a recent Facebook post. “There are only 1,253 commercial ventilators in the Philippines, 153 of which are in Metro Manila. We are 105 million Filipinos with only an 89,000 hospital bed capacity.” Madrio, an alumnus of Don Bosco Technical...
Safeguarding the Health of Homeless Youth
July 8, 2020“We know what it means to be in quarantine, to be afraid to go out on the street, to see people die during the epidemic. We lived with Ebola.” These are the words of Father Jorge Mario Crisafulli, director of Don Bosco Fambul in Freetown, Sierra Leone—an organization that served on the...