Before little Veronica ever stepped foot inside the Hogar María Auxiliadora in Bolivia, Salesian volunteer Eden Gordon was determined the child would learn one thing if nothing else: exactly what it felt like to be loved. And there’s no doubt...
Beginning this month, we joyfully celebrate the 75th anniversary of Salesian Missions—a significant milestone in our long and fruitful partnership with generous friends like you. Together, we have helped more than three million children around the...
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“The Mass is like the sun which daily illumines and warms all Christian life.”
- Saint John Fisher
Placide’s family is desperately poor. So poor, in fact, that he often wonders whether there will be enough food to eat on any given day. Many times, there isn’t. It is the sad reality of living in Burundi, a country where more than 90 percent of...
Despite positive economic growth and recent improvements to quality of life, food insecurity and malnutrition remain stubborn adversaries in the fight against poverty and hunger in Rwanda—where more than 60 percent of the population still lives on...
During the height of the global pandemic last year, missionaries at Don Bosco Tech in Katihar, India wondered how they could best support area families who lost their jobs and their only source of income. Today, thanks to an agriculturally...
Agriculture is the economic mainstay of Sagamu, Nigeria—yet many of the region’s disadvantaged residents are excluded from the opportunities it provides. A new Salesian-run training program at St. Joseph’s Farm aims to change that, one student at...
The Evuna stream is brown, dirty and often completely dried up due to the lack of rain and a prolonged dry season. Yet thousands of people in rural Nkerefi, Nigeria depend on this unreliable water source for their survival. Or, at least they used ...
Education is one of the most effective tools young refugees can use to rebuild their futures. And yet, around the world, millions of them remain deprived of the opportunity to obtain an education. Undaunted by statistics, Salesian missionaries ...
In the Philippines, where hundreds of thousands of residents depend upon the “blue economy” to improve their job prospects, livelihoods and contributions to a sustainable ecosystem, Salesian missionaries are leading an innovative new program to ...
Deepu was alarmed. Throughout his home state of Chennai, India, children were dropping out of school due to pandemic-related restrictions and their inability to learn from home. And then a lightbulb went off—one that promises to illuminate the ...
