Can you imagine spending more than half your daily salary on a single bucket of water? For a full-time employee earning minimum wage in the United States, that would be $29 for just a few gallons: barely enough for a family to drink—let alone...
Reina was just four years old when her mother died–leaving her and her younger sister Norah under the care of their father who often worked long hours away from their home in Capinota, Bolivia. Like most local men, he struggled to ear...
It’s difficult to escape news of the countless heartbreaking casualties of Syria’s ongoing civil war. Yet, buried under the barrage of stories about this overwhelming humanitarian crisis is one that often escapes coverage—and one...
Twenty years ago, Phaisan graduated from the Don Bosco Technical School in Bangkok, Thailand. Today, he pays that opportunity forward—by training and employing underprivileged youth in coffee production and retail...
Salesian missionaries at Don Bosco Fambul have been working on behalf of Sierra Leone’s most vulnerable children since 1998, when they first arrived in the capital city of Freetown in the midst of the country’s brutal civil war. Beginning...
Today in Peru, an estimated 3.3 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are engaged in forced labor—much of it hazardous. And, despite focused government efforts to combat this inhumane practice, these numbers are only...
Every five minutes, a vulnerable girl or boy arrives alone and frightened at a train station in Bangalore, one of India’s biggest cities. Every five minutes! Some of them are simply lost, with no ability to find their way home. Others have...
Since April 2016, thousands of South Sudanese refugees have been flooding across the northern Ugandan border into Palabek—where they join, as of now, at least 36,000 others seeking relief from violence, drought and famine in their own countries.
Like any devoted parent, Angelo Regazzo rises each morning at 4:00am to have breakfast with the children before he goes to work. Unlike many parents, however, his family is comprised of quite a few kids: 400, to be exact.
Today, in what seems to be the darkest hour in the war-torn country of the Central African Republic (CAR), 15,000 children and young people are ready and eager to join the worldwide “Scouting” movement, and brighten their country’s ...
