Mission News
Your Kindness, Multiplied
May 6, 2024
Now that Spring is in full bloom, it’s time for our annual Loaves and Fishes campaign—a critical appeal that provides food, clothing, medicine and other essential supplies to thousands of children and families around the world. For every $1 that caring friends like you can give, we are able to...
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Their City—and Spirits—Will Never Break
May 6, 2024More than a year has passed since a catastrophic earthquake crumbled the foundations of so many lives in Syria. But the effects remain clear and present for its people who, despite it all, are rebuilding their lives and hope, thanks to compassionate friends like you. Almost immediately following...
New Computers, New Skills for At-Risk Students
May 6, 2024Much like their peers here in the United States, youth across Argentina are eager to learn relevant, cutting-edge skills that will help them succeed in the classroom, further their education, and build rewarding careers. Yet poverty and a lack of resources often derail those dreams. Kind friends...
Quenching Thirst and Delivering Dignity
April 3, 2024Clean water. In a world where impoverished communities desperately lack it, it’s one of the simplest ways to deliver dignity. In Lagos, Nigeria, a brand-new well is doing just that, thanks to the generosity of our compassionate donors. Here, as many as 100,000 youth live on the streets … a...
Press Releases
INDIA: At-risk youth benefit from vehicles with donor funding from Salesian Missions
April 29, 2024
Salesian missionaries support youth and marginalized families in rural areas. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (April 29, 2024) Salesian missionaries with SURABI, the Salesian Project Development Office of Chennai, India, have five vehicles to support their work thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the...
Read Full StoryINDIA: Schools install solar panels through donor funding from Salesian Missions
April 22, 202414 solar panels benefit Salesian institutions. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (April 22, 2024) Salesian institutions in India installed solar panels thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Fourteen solar panels were added to the Don Bosco Media...
NAMIBIA: Students have new school furniture thanks to donation secured by Salesian Missions
April 16, 2024Furniture Reuse Solutions donation used in classrooms, computer lab and staff room. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (April 16, 2024) Don Bosco Private School in Namibia received classroom furniture thanks to a donation from Furniture Reuse Solutions secured by Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the...
INDIA: Salesian Missions funds project to help support migrant children
April 15, 2024Children attend study centers, receive health and nutrition services. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (April 15, 2024) Salesian missionaries with Bosco Vikas Gramin Kendra were able to support children in migrant communities in the Central Maharashtra region of India thanks to funding from Salesian Missions, the...
News Coverage
(National Catholic Reporter) UN Water Conference shows global consensus on universal right to water
March 30, 2023
NEW YORK, N.Y. March 30, 2023 (Excerpt) The first day of the U.N. Water Conference, March 22, was international World Water Day, a day marked by Salesian Missions, the New York-based development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The Salesians have made clean water projects a priority because...
Read Full Story(ACI Africa) On World Water Day, Salesian entity reviews its “Clean Water Initiative” in Africa
March 27, 2023MAPUTO, Mozambique March 27, 2023 (Excerpt) On the occasion of World Water Day marked March 22, officials of Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), have reviewed the entity’s global project dubbed “Clean Water...
(ACI Africa) Salesians in Burundi boost learning in partnership realizing “access to better nutrition”
March 13, 2023BUJUMBURA, Burundi March 13, 2023 (Excerpt) Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in Burundi are boosting learning at their institution in the country’s Catholic Diocese of Ngozi in a partnership that is realizing “access to better nutrition”. In a March 6...
(ACI Africa) War victims in North Kivu, DR Congo, benefit from Salesians’ “improved” facilities
February 28, 2023KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo Feb. 28, 2023 (Excerpt) At least 1,800 victims of violent conflicts in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have benefited from the medical care provided by the U.S.-based development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians...
