Mission News
Dozens of Children Rescued from Child Labor Abuse
January 5, 2026
Throughout India, vulnerable children sadly become victims of child labor every day. Each child that goes out onto the streets to work is subject to a number of child rights violations, including: working for hours without breaks and little to no food or water; being absent from school; wandering...
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A New “Village” Where At-Risk Kids Can Thrive
January 5, 2026Around the world, vulnerable youth face circumstances that no child should have to endure. For many, it’s a short journey to go from being ‘at risk’ to experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, drug use, and exposure to sex trafficking and underage work abuses. That’s why Salesian Lakou...
Computer Literacy Program is Opening New Doors
January 5, 2026Jacarezinho is one of the most crowded and dangerous neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ongoing violence has forced many schools to close, denying children access to an education. It is here, surrounded by the danger and chaos, that our Salesian missionaries operate the Mary Help of...
From Hunger to Hope in India
November 3, 2025Children growing up in the slums of India rarely attend school. All too often, they are forced to forego educational opportunities because of extreme poverty. Instead, they are thrown into the workforce at a very young age, where they face harsh conditions and mistreatment. Their parents have no...
Press Releases
BENIN: 550 youth receive healthy meals through Rise Against Hunger’s partnership with Salesian Missions
January 22, 2026
Feeding program allows children to remain focused on their education. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Jan. 22, 2026) Youth attending Foyer Don Bosco, located in Porto-Novo, Benin, received a shipment of nutritious meals through a partnership between Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of...
Read Full StoryZAMBIA: Salesian Missions partners with Feed My Starving Children to address nutritional needs of children
January 21, 20265 shipments sent to Salesian programs in 2025. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Jan. 21, 2026) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, has been able to support nutritional needs of youth in Zambia thanks to an ongoing partnership with Feed My Starving Children, a nonprofit...
SOUTH SUDAN: Don Bosco Morobo renovates community house thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions
January 21, 2026Facility benefits more than 20,000 people across 25 sub-stations. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Jan. 21, 2026) Salesians with Don Bosco Morobo in South Sudan* have finished renovations on the community house thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco....
INDIA: Community members in Sorokpara have new chapel thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions
January 20, 2026People in village now have space to worship. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Jan. 20, 2026) The village of Sorokpara, located in the West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya, India, has a new chapel thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The project...
News Coverage
(National Catholic Reporter/Global Sisters Report) Monday Starter: Admist violence in the world, UISG calls for global day of prayer
August 14, 2025
Aug. 11, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesians mark two international UN days this month The development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, which includes Salesian sisters, are marking two international dates established by the United Nations — International Youth Day on Aug. 12 and World Humanitarian Day on...
Read Full Story(National Catholic Reporter/Global Sisters Report) Salesians mark UN day for children in conflict
June 2, 2025June 2, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, is joining efforts to promote the United Nations’ annual International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, marked on June 4. The day, which received the U.N. designation in 1982,...
(OSV) Archbishop encourages hope as death toll in Myanmar surpasses 3,000
April 7, 2025April 4, 2025 (Excerpt) Burmese Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay said that despite the suffering caused by the deadly earthquake, the people of Myanmar are clinging to hope in God’s mercy. In an interview published April 3 with Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization,...
(National Catholic Reporter/Global Sisters Report) Monday Starter: Salesians mark UN’s World Water Day
March 22, 2025March 22, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesian Missions joined other humanitarian groups on March 22 in marking World Water Day, a United Nations-led commemoration to bring attention to the need for safe, clean water. In an announcement, the Salesians noted that in addition to drawing attention to the...
